Re: Which news reader application for OS X?

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From: David J Richardson
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:09

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In article <vww20-5F8A05.02362024082003@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
 Vaughan Wittorff <vww20@nospam-cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.

I don't frequent the group named -- but I doubt the quoted figures are 
representative. For example, if you look at aus.films over the past 
year (http://www.geocities.com/newsgroupstats/), MT is twice as popular 
as MacSoup.

Hogwasher is way behind, Thoth even further, Halime a spec on the 
horizon. (It doesn't distinguish between the other, cross-platform 
options.)

Yes, it's a similarly small sample, but it better matches my gut feel 
that the Newswatcher family still holds top spot.

-- 
David J Richardson -- davidj@richardson.name
http://davidj.richardson.name/ -- Dr Who articles/interviews/reviews
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Subject: Re: Which news reader application for OS X?
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