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Full Featured UseNet Clients for Mac?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Harrisonburg, VA USA
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I'll be straight up with you guys. My local fox station developed a problem were it has no sound about half the time, meaning that my wife can't watch the OC. She's a huge fan an therefore pretty pissed about not being able to watch the new season. The cable company isn't fixing it, so I'd like to download the eps we miss, but I can't use Bittorrent (for reasons I won't go into here) so I'm turning to UseNet. So I'm really looking for two things:
A full featured client for the mac that lets me easily find files.
A reliable service provider that has pretty good retention.
Suggestions?
Edit:Oaky, most of you are probably trying to smack me mentally, as I very quickly found that the extremely awesome guys a panic not only make a client, but are a usenet service provider as well. So I'll alter my post to ask, is anyone using this? is it as good as I assume something from panic should be?
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"Make good fight."
-Mr. Miyagi
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Newport News, VA USA
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Unison is a nice app. I'm not using their service so I can't comment on that, although I hear they have decent retention. I've actually been toying around with the idea of subscribing since Cox's retention stinks...
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Newcastle, Australia
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I can't recommend Panic's Unison (nor their news service) enough. It's cheap, like you say the data retention is very good (I believe it's 2 months of data). If you're considering it - sign up for a month and try it - I haven't regretted it since the service was switched on 
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Alaska
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Unison works very well, and I used to use EasyNews, until I found that my ISP just outsources to SuperNews, so I just switched to that.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Harrisonburg, VA USA
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Alrighty, Unison it is. For anyone else looking here for answers, I'll point out that they have a bundle that essentially throws in a month for free with purchase of the software, so I'm sold.
Thanks to everyone who responded.
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"Make good fight."
-Mr. Miyagi
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2005
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I use Unison 1.6.3 with an "unlimited" Giganews subscription ($29.99 a month).
It's the Crack habit of the 21st Century 
(I used to use Thoth 1.7.2, which was a good "expert user" newsreader - I actually preferred it to early versions of Unison. But once I realized I spent more time downloading binaries than reading normal text newsgroups, Unison's ease-of-use in assembling binaries came to the fore. Not to mention the fact that there has apparently been no new release of Thoth since 1.7.2 - and that was 2 years ago. The domain - http://www.ThothSW.COM/ - has even been lost in the interim.)
N.B. - An excellent guide to Usenet software (both readers and "helper apps") for the Mac is located here.
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