The best binary newsreader for the mac. Unfortunately that's not saying much. Browsing binaries is a nightmare and it doesn't reach a tenth of the feature set of pc apps like newsleecher. However - if you get your .nzbs from binsearch.com or similar, it's a life safer and does the job. Recommended, but only to download binaries from nzb.

great app, but it needs intelligent par downloading & decoding.

To me, this is the only real Macintosh newsreader. All others tend to be ugly or overly technical. These qualities don't bother most Usenet junkies since Usenet is the dark underbelly of the Internet and users still like to maintain its often archaic nature. Nevertheless, I appreciate a friendly interface and easily accessible features.

Panic is a great company.

This is simply one of the best little applications I currently own, Panic! could have charged $50 for Unison and it would have still been good value for money. That said if anyone bothers to still read binary newsgroup postings you'll find a swade of opposition to Unison users in regards to how the application uploads to binary groups.

Simply the best newsgroup app there is on any platform. Makes newsgroups a wonderful experience again. Well worth $25.00

The only application that made me even care about newsgroups since the '90s. Highly recommended.

Works decently on a Mini Core Solo (2gbram), however sometimes it can take a few minutes to update large newsgroups (several million articles) and bring those windows to the front. Not surprising given my lower end mac ;)
I really like being able to preview files. For images, gives a page of thumbnails and for audio theres a play button.
It is an excellent news browser and works great for downloading binaries. Is also compatible with .nzb files.

still amazingly buggy, but it's the only newsreader for OS X that handles yenc, etc. that I've found.

There are two apps named Unison. I use the file synchronization tool ( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/docs.html ) which I find to be by far the best & fastest file synchronizer - much better than rsync, since it syncs both ways.

With Thoth now permanently mothballed, I gave Unison a try. It felt like an iApp, nice to use but pretty limited in functionality. If you're just getting your feet wet in Usenet, this would be a pretty good app; me, I'm sticking with Thoth, at least until Unison catches up.