Re: Considering switch to linux

In <pan.2005.12.31.16.07.57.702632@xxxxxxxxxxx>, on Sat, 31 Dec 2005
10:07:58 -0600, Dan C wrote:

> And so you won't think I'm being mean, the two most popular Linux
> newsreader programs are Pan (usually by Gnome users) and Knode (for KDE
> users). See if you can get one of them going.

As for people who post here, even without doing the
aggregates, it seems that slrn beats them all by a mile.

(newsreaders used in this group over the last 600
posts or so in which the id string was used more
than once)

82 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux)
69 User-Agent: G2/0.2
59 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table)
38 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670
33 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Debian)
29 User-Agent: KNode/0.10
25 User-Agent: tin/1.7.10-20050929 ("Tahay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.14-mh (i686)) tinews.pl/1.1.7
24 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.)
22 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923)
21 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian)
20 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715)
16 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
11 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux))
10 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013)
10 User-Agent: KNode/0.8.2
9 X-Newsreader: leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20051115a
9 User-Agent: Hull LUG Usenet Gateway
8 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051003)
8 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716)
7 X-Mailer: post-direct - Linux 2.6.14-mh; 2005-12#1
7 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513)
6 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527
6 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)
6 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923)
5 User-Agent: KNode/0.9.3
5 User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2
4 X-Newsreader: Mozilla 4.6 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
4 X-Mailer: postdirect v0.6 - Linux 2.6.14-mh
4 User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25
4 User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.8-2-386 (i686))
4 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD)
4 User-Agent: Opera M2/8.51 (Linux, build 1462)
3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506
3 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051106)
3 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux)
3 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX)
2 X-User-Agent: noyfb
2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409
2 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235
2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783
2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652
2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564
2 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.6.11 i686)
2 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201)
2 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4 (Windows/20050908)
2 >> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux)
2 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929)
2 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050815)
2 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716)
2 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051205 SeaMonkey/1.1a
2 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0
2 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050927 Debian/1.7.8-1sarge3
2 User-Agent: M$ O and OE SUCK! Ok, anything from M$ sucks.
2 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)
2 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017)
2 > Note especially the lack of a User-Agent string: That
2 Anyone can put any User-Agent or X-Newsreader line they want
2 > Anyone can put any User-Agent or X-Newsreader line they want
.

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