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In article <3p0h04$odq@rodan.UU.NET>,
          moraes@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes) wrote in news.lists:

> In response to a question, I collected this data by egrepping all the
> x-newsreader: and x-mailer: headers from our news spool and then
> stripping out version information (somewhat imperfectly).  Obviously,
> those newsreaders that don't insert their name haven't been counted.
> (over half the news articles have no x-newsreader/x-mailer header,
> thankfully:-)
> 
> The snapshot of our spool represents a reasonably complete Big-8 &
> most-of-alt feed & some gatewayed mailing lists -- roughly 1Gb of news,
> (400,000 articles); our expiry is 4 days, on average.
> 
> 	Mark.
>
> [Big list deleted]

I saw this, and stripped out the Acorn-related news/email readers,
thinking the results could be quite interesting.  The above is quoted
so as to put the statistics in perspective.  I've also included TIN
and DIS, to give some idea of relative scale.

    Entry  Count  Reader

      1    68239  TIN
     12     2477  Demon Internet Simple News

     25      330  Archimedes TTFN
     98       18  ANT RISCOS Marcel
    127       11  !EasyMail for the Archimedes
    150        8  RISC OS TTFN
    165        7  RiscOS TTFN
    207        6  RiscOS' MailList Robot automatic scheduler
    214        4  Offlite-Internet
    217        4  InterTalk
    233        3  RiscPC TTFN
    234        3  Risc PC TTFN
    247        3  Archiboard
    290        2  Acorn Archimedes TTFN
    329        1  ReaderS for the Acorn Archimedes
    375        1  Archimedes ReadNews

Total 382 readers found.

So TTFN is far and away the most popular Acorn news reader used to
date.  It'll be interesting to see how the figures change as all
the new Internet software becomes widely available.  It will also
be interesting to see how usage of Acorn machines on the 'net might
increase as a proportion of total usage.

BTW, accumulating all the TTFN counts pushes it up to entry 23.

The figures are possibly a little misleading, depending upon when
the 4-day period is counted.  And the lower counts are small enough
to be susceptible to relatively large fluctuations.

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