Unison Usenet for fans

At one point it seemed that the Web with its Usenet forums throw to the dustbin of history. Fortunately this did not happen, although the number of participants actually decreased.

I continue to participate in the usenet-conferences on the following several reasons:

• they save traffic compared with forums, because it does not allow the use of avatars, signatures attached to pictures, etc..
• usenet-clients give more options for managing subscriptions. For example, if I do not like any party (he was a boor, a troll, etc.), I can not read his posts
• usenet-clients allow you to configure rules for messages. For example, there is a participant of the conference in which, by virtue of his experience and knowledge, is more interesting to you, his opinion carries more weight and significance. You can highlight his responses to them easier to detect.
• convenient representation. In the vast majority of forums answers follow one another. Usenet-Clients them build in the form of chains, one can see who intended response.

For Mac there are comfortable enough usenet-client Unison, Which developer is Panic (the company even created a lot of wonderful programs).

Unison know how all of the above. Discussions are formed in the chain, you can adjust the rule to selectively download messages (which, for example, deprived of usenet-client in Opera), etc.

Since a lot of Usenet file (as if to speak directly - "warez") conferences, participants who publish music, pictures, clipart, etc., Unison thought work load files.

For me it is important that Unison works with all zoo Russian encodings. Cases where the text comes in the form of non-readable, are quite rare and it is always a MS Outlook Express (have to manually specify the encoding) of wine.

Unison main disadvantage is that the search for work not quite smooth. When you enter a few Cyrillic characters, there are the first results. However, if you type the entire word in Russian, the program does not find anything. What is the reason is unclear. I tried to enter only those words that have been added in the subject, but it did not help. It seems that there is a problem Cyrillic support.

website Developer: Panic (Shareware, $ 24.95)