From: "Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Operating systems for Statland
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:32:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812152032.PAA23038@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33e6hb424.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on 15 Dec 1998 20:25:39 +0100)
Excerpts from mail: (15-Dec-98) Re: Operating systems for Statland by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
> John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@nd.edu> writes:
>> (This is a variant of NewsWatcher, which is on the list, but is a
>> different program, hence has a different URL.)
>
> I assumes that all the Newswatchers were the same program. They
> aren't? How many of them are there?
No, not really. NewsWatcher is quasi-open source, and the tree has forked
several times. The original NewsWatcher has maybe one release per year,
mostly to keep it working gracefully with Mac OS updates or when a serious
bug is found. MT-NewsWatcher is actually more popular than the original due
to it's multi-threaded user interface. There's also Yet Another NewsWatcher
(a.k.a. YA-NewsWatcher) and Value-Added NewsWatcher (a.k.a. VA-NewsWatcher)
and Word Services-NewsWatcher (a.k.a. WS-NewsWatcher). All of which adds
various features. Development has pretty much halted on YA- and VA-, but YA-
is still very popular. It used to be the most popular. It was number 13 on
the newsreader posting chart (November 1998 statistics) compiled at
<http://www.cs.uit.no/~kjelli/newschart.html>. MT-NewsWatcher was number 11.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-15 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-13 9:17 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-13 15:27 ` Bud Rogers
1998-12-15 17:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-13 15:43 ` Bjørn Mork
1998-12-13 22:14 ` Matt Armstrong
1998-12-15 17:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-15 17:12 ` Hans de Graaff
1998-12-15 18:13 ` John H Palmieri
1998-12-15 19:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-15 20:32 ` Edward J. Sabol [this message]
1998-12-15 21:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-15 21:56 ` Edward J. Sabol
1998-12-17 17:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-21 14:16 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-12-21 19:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-21 18:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-12-15 21:59 ` John H Palmieri
1998-12-17 17:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-15 19:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-20 8:55 ` 0.66 - Signaling: (void-function find-charset-region) Roman Milner
1998-12-20 11:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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