From Newsgroup: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Jim Higgins <
gordian238@hotmail.com> wrote:
Can it import mail folders, a lot of them, and messages from
Thunderbird?
I don't use MacSOUP for email, so I'm no help there.
The site mentioned it was an offline newsreader. Is that a
typo? I would much rather read online than off.
The description about being offline is a litle misleading. That use to
put me off as well. It kept me from trying MacSOUP for quite a while.
But it doesn't really mean what one might at first think, and I'm glad I eventually tried it.
I also do all my newsreading "online" in that I download and read it
right away rather than saving it to read sometime later. Essentially,
the "offline part" just means that you do have the two steps of download
and read. But it is pretty painless. One command downloads all of the
news you have subscribed to. Then you read it at will (usually right
then). Then check for more that just case in if you like.
A benefit is that rereading an old article is instantaneous because a
copy is kept on your machine (up to a retention period that you can
specify).
There are a few things I find annoying about MacSOUP. I won't detail
them here right now. They are mostly pretty trivial. The whole SOUP part
is about some protocol that I've never otherwise heard of and don't use;
seems odd to name the product around it. The graphical thread display is
great; I've not seen anything else that is as good. That is *THE* reason
to use MacSOUP.
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