RE: Re: What's that sound?

1. If you check the web page (www.palmyanoff.com), it's pretty clear that
New Yanoff is a usenet news reader, and anyone familiar with GPL Yanoff
would know that as well. It's unfortunate that RSS readers are being
referred to as news readers, which clearly is confusing a lot of folks.

2. Interesting about secure logins. Right now I'm using my ISPs NNTP
service, but from time to time, I'll use either Easy News or Usenet and
neither require SSL. If this is going to be a trend (requiring SSL), I
wonder how many newsreaders will get broken?

3. FWIW, $24 is in line with what the PPC news readers sell for ($18 for the
cheapest, $25 for the other three I'm aware of). New Yanoff has no real
competition on the Palm side, but I think the $24 price is quite reasonable.
Gregg puts a lot of work into the program and has really developed a
superior product. Plus you can always use Yanoff- which is free.

4. Hi-Res and Landscape modes already exist in V3.0.

I'll let Gregg address the SSL and VFS issues, although I believe he's
working on both.

Don

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of jcharpak
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 15:26
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [yanoff] Re: What's that sound?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Gregg Woodcock" <woodcock@S...> wrote:
> > 
> > Did anybody else hear a cricket chirping?
> > :>
> 
> Maybe because you created a poll and then proceeded to announce that 
> you are ignoring it? :) 
> 
> Those people who left this mailing list because yanoff is a 
> usenet "newsreader" as opposed to a rss "newsreader" were likely 
> doing a search for "newsreader". It didn't mean your product is bad, 
> it just wasn't what people thought it was (which isn't your fault 
> either). It didn't mean you had to go out and add rss functionality, 
> although I have to admit it sounds cool. In addition, there is a lack 
> of competition for rss readers for palm devices. But that's not 
> enough for me to cough up 24.00 USD. For half that price I could get 
> HAND/RSS.
> 
> Personally, my biggest feature request is SSL support. It doesn't 
> matter how good of a reader you have, if you can't download posts :)
> 
> With news.individual.net changing into a not free usenet source, and 
> many usenet sources requiring secure logins, many people may not be 
> able to use yanoff at all. My second top request would be vfs 
> support. I know you mentioned that this is difficult to do, but I 
> really do believe that support for ssl, vfs support and high-res and 
> or landscape mode (which I believe you have already done) would be a 
> great selling point versus gpl yanoff or even yanoff- .
> 



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