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Newsreader wars....

#334
From: Alan W. Frame
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
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Have a look at the "Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval 2.0 (GNKSA 2.0)
for Usenet" stuff at <http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejs/gnksa/> if you want
some interesting info on the failings of OutPuke, Nutscrape, etc as
newsreaders.

--- extract (Passed)  ----
Mac OS 
                    YA NewsWatcher 3.0b10 100% (Seal No.: 000004) 
                    HogWasher 1.0b6 93% (Seal No.: 000006) 
                    MacSOUP 2.3 89% (Seal No.: 000001) 
                    MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.1 85% (Seal No.: 000003) 
                    NewsWatcher 2.2.2 85% (Seal No.: 000002) 
                    NewsWatcher 2.2 85% (Seal No.: 000002) 
                    NewsWatcher 2.2b6 85% (Seal No.: 000002) 
--- extract (Failed)  ----
Mac OS 
                    HogWasher 1.0b5 97% 
                    MT NewsWatcher 2.3.1 87% 
                    Newshopper 1.3b 87% 
                    YA NewsWatcher 2.4.0 85% 
                    InterNews 2.02 77% 
                    Outlook Express 4.0.1 74% 
                    Netscape Communicator 4.5b1 (beta preview) 72% 
                    America Online 3.0 72% 
                    Nuntius 2.0.4 72% 
                    Cindy's Newsmailer 1.1g 69% 
                    Netscape 4.0.2 67% 
                    rnMac 2.0d17 64% 
                    Outlook Express 4.0c(195) 64% 
                    Apple Cyberdog 2.0 59% 
                    HogWasher 1.0b3 59% 
--- /extract ----

(MacSOUP 4 is on the "current evaluation" list)

Oh, there's some interesting info on the state of good newsreaders over
in PCland, too... ;-)

rgds, Alan
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From: alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame)
Subject: Newsreader wars....
Date: 1998/10/06
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