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 :)
