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Article #334Newsreader wars....
From: Alan W. Frame
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
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%
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(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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