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Article #91Re: Which news reader application for OS X?
From: Chris Ridd
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:03
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:03
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On 24/8/03 10:09 am, in article davidj-DECBCA.19092224082003@freenews.iinet.net.au, "David J Richardson" <davidj@richardson.name> wrote: > 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. Someone posted a link to a big news database at Microsoft showing posting frequencies etc. I can't remember the link (anyone?) but it might be able to extract newsreader stats. Cheers, Chris
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc20b,7c2ce4e9f9f3c729 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc20b,public X-Google-Thread: 10b5e3,7c2ce4e9f9f3c729 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5e3,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-24 03:04:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!amsnews01.chello.com!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Subject: Re: Which news reader application for OS X? From: Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac,aus.computers.mac Message-ID: <BB6E4C1E.9A8EB%chrisridd@mac.com> References: <vww20-8D53FC.04253023082003@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <1g051si.1uitdap1cj1umrN%pd.news@dsl.pipex.invalid> <vww20-5F8A05.02362024082003@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <davidj-DECBCA.19092224082003@freenews.iinet.net.au> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:03:58 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.43.138.40 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1061719450 82.43.138.40 (Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:04:10 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:04:10 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder)