On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:51:03 -0500, patrick j wrote (in article <2008072018510316807-emailnotchecked@gmailcom>):
> On 2008-07-20 14:33:10 +0100, Tim Lance <see.sig@bottom.com> said: > >> There are many signs that HW is long in the tooth but it's >> Subscription/multi-server abilities alone keep me in line. It's sad but I >> have given up on ever seeing the v5 Cocoa version. He's been promising that >> as long as Panic has been promising v2. With the advent of bittorrent and >> the >> (somewhat, but noticeable) decline in binaries on USENET, demand for such >> versions may be gone. > > Hi > > Yes, I feel that an update to Hogwasher is now unlikely. It did occur > to me that if I paid for Unison then fate would mean that within a few > days Asar would announce Hogwasher 5.0 :) > > So, keep your eye on the Hogwasher site over the next week! > > If version 5.0 comes out you'll know who to thank. I'll download it and > use it immediately. > > I was actually very surprised when version 4.3 came out. > > What I'd really like to see in a future version of Hogwasher is > format=flowed text. It's great. It's what I really like about > Thunderbird and Entourage newsreaders. > > My hope is that bit torrenting will remove the use of Usenet for > distributing illegal things. What I think Usenet binaries are ideal for > is putting up pics of the plants in your garden, that kind of thing. > Also it is great for recordings of music, where small groups of > musicians have recorded something. This tends to happen in classical > music which I'm very interested in. > > Bit torrent is ideal for larger things, like software or DVDs, because > as you know very well of course the nature of bit torrent means that > something has to remain being seeded, so it relies on the direct > consumers of the moment to keep it 'alive'. So, big well-known things > are available on bit torrent rather than Usenet. > > Personally I'm amazed that Usenet is still around at all these days :) > > >
A man after my own heart. I believe in precious little so am more than a bit amazed at how often tempting fate bites me in the ass. So, thank you, Patrick. Perhaps it'll work.
