Several month ago I received an email stating there would soon be an update for 4.3 where the long existing problem of Hogwasher aborting all the time was solved.

I have still to see an update and get really fed up with at least 1 abort a month of this pogramm.

Most beta versions are more stable than this version 4.3 of Hogwasher!!!!!

This product should be avoided if you are using the Intel platform, as it crashes *very* frequently. My comments/information request to Asar yielded no result. I'm very disappointed that I plopped down $50 for this piece of, um, software. Unfortunately, I didn't yet know of the existence of Unison.

For anyone wondering: it works just fine in Tiger for me.

I've tried almost every newsreader out there for OS X. I was waiting for MacSoup and MTNewswatcher to get ported so I would have something familiar when I found Hogwasher. I can't believe the features and utility of this application! It does everything I want a newsreader to do and does them perfectly. Perhaps my needs are less than others because I don't dl a lot of images or binaries, but I do all my newsgroup reading offline and this app fills the bill perfectly. As I say, I 've tried them all, including Unison, and to me Hogwasher is still way above them all in features and function (and it's not because I don't like Panic's software - I own another of their apps). Yes, $50 may seem high for shareware, but I've paid more for commercial apps that I've found I like less. To me it's worth every penny.

I've got several newsreaders for the Mac and I love Hogwasher. Unison has its place (I like to get vcd's with it) but for text news and pictures Hogwasher is my favorite. I believe it has a 30+ day demo period. I strongly recommend trying it out.