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What can I say?  I could not have received a more comprehensive followup 
to my question than that from PeterD - many thanks, and also to the 
others who gave their various preferences and helpful opinions.

 pd.news@dsl.pipex.invalid (PeterD) wrote:

<snip>
> > How popular is 
> > MT-NewsWatcher 3.2?
> 
> Well, about three weeks ago I posted a newsreader summary of a thousand
> articles in ucsm - here it is again:
> 
> All: 1007 articles in group uk.comp.sys.mac
> 
>   1: %38.33     386 MacSOUP
> 
>   2: %18.17     183 Microsoft Outlook Express / Entourage
>                      65 PC Versions
>                     118 Mac Versions 
> 
>   3: %06.75      68 MT-NewsWatcher 
> 
>   4: %05.86      59 NewsHopper
> 
>   5: %05.66      57 Netscape 
>                     4 PC Mozilla/5.0
>                    52 Mac Versions 

Just looking at the top five, MacSOUP clearly is way ahead on 
popularity.  How many of those were your posts though PeterD?  :)  
Seriously though, I cannot help but think that its popularity probably 
indicates some kind of superiority in usability.

However, I think I am correct in saying that MacSOUP supports off-line 
newsreading, and so is suitable for dialup users, while MT-NewsWatcher 
does/is not.  Since I am never going to be using a dialup connection, 
maybe that removes for me a major attraction of MacSOUP, and so perhaps 
I should lean more towards MT-NewsWatcher?  I am of course eliminating 
the Microsoft products as potential candidates as a matter of principle!

Netscape 7 could be an option, especially since I am used to 4.79, but I 
really don't feel comfortable installing it just for news (since I have 
already decided on using Mail and Safari).  I am one of those "keep 
things simple" users who wants to do more with less.  Hence my joy when 
I found that Jaguar allows me to save as PDF from *any* application.  
Goodbye Acrobat!  [Although I might have to use Acrobat anyway since I 
might need the security options.]

Cheers,
Vaughan