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Article #92Re: Which news reader application for OS X?
From: Wayne Stuart
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:36
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:36
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Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> wrote: > 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. http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/Static/reportcard.asp -- This message was brought to you by Wayne "Dark 1" Stuart
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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 04:37:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pc3-mapp3-6-cust6.nott.cable.ntl.COM!not-for-mail From: me4@privacy.net (Wayne Stuart) Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac,aus.computers.mac Subject: Re: Which news reader application for OS X? Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:36:34 +0100 Organization: I am not a number Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1g074c2.1fh9ovo1um2gu4N%me4@privacy.net> 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> <BB6E4C1E.9A8EB%chrisridd@mac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc3-mapp3-6-cust6.nott.cable.ntl.com (81.101.251.6) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1061725028 7608128 81.101.251.6 (16 [196673]) X-Orig-Path: me4 User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.5 (Mac OS X version 10.2.6)