Newsreaders:Is Agent still #1 and how can I find out what is best? Charts?

Pedro Sanchez IV

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Dec 10, 2009, 10:14:18 PM12/10/09

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AGENT seems to be losing popularity or not I don't know..
Is there a Comparison website that ranks Usenet companies and also
Ranks NewsServers???

I want to get the fastest connection possible with SSL and 10-20
connections, Giganews looks more expensive now than in past.

Well can some kind hearted soul give this man some help?

thanx

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Ralph Fox

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Dec 11, 2009, 2:53:17 AM12/11/09

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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:14:18 -0500, in message <n3e3i55tr3otk8iqvru39okhhi16f81m70@PRIVATE>
Pedro Sanchez IV <pe...@sanchez.iv> wrote:

> AGENT seems to be losing popularity or not I don't know..

Agent is #3 at 15% in this list; below #1 Google groups and #2 Microsoft's product(s)
and above #4 Thunderbird.
http://www.newsreaders.com/link/gstats/stats.php?show_details=false&top=20

Agent is #4 at 8.9% in this list, below #3 Thunderbird.
http://newsadmin.com/readerbrandsqty.asp?date=20091209

On the other hand, if you look at a comparisons which is weighted
towards binary posts, then Agent ranks a bit lower

http://newsadmin.com/readerbrandsbytes.asp?date=20091209

> Is there a Comparison website that ranks Usenet companies and also
> Ranks NewsServers???
>
> I want to get the fastest connection possible with SSL and 10-20
> connections, Giganews looks more expensive now than in past.
>
> Well can some kind hearted soul give this man some help?
>
> thanx

--
Regards
Ralph

Robert Neville

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Dec 11, 2009, 10:28:37 AM12/11/09

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Pedro Sanchez IV <pe...@sanchez.iv> wrote:

>AGENT seems to be losing popularity or not I don't know..

Agent isn't the issue, Usenet is the issue. It's been dying a slow death for
years now. Unfortuneate as it has some significant user interface, privacy and
redundancy benefits, but it also has drawbacks that have driven people to web
based solutions.

Jim Jones

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Dec 12, 2009, 7:52:07 PM12/12/09

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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:28:37 -0700, Robert Neville <do...@bother.com>
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What an incredibly useless and stupid reply.

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pyotr filipivich

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Dec 13, 2009, 11:48:19 PM12/13/09

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Let the Record show that Spender <Spe...@Mars.org> on or about Sat,
12 Dec 2009 20:34:30 -0600 did write/type or cause to appear in
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent the following:

>On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:28:37 -0700, Robert Neville <do...@bother.com>
>wrote:
>

>>Agent isn't the issue, Usenet is the issue. It's been dying a slow death for
>>years now. Unfortuneate as it has some significant user interface, privacy and
>>redundancy benefits, but it also has drawbacks that have driven people to web
>>based solutions.
>

>Dying a slow death? I think the owners/operators of all NSP's would
>disagree with that.

The looming death of Usenet has been one of those constants (like
"True AI will be finally implemented in five to ten years. Always has
been, always will be.") discussed since at least when I got online,
and that was years before WWW and URLS.

pyotr

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pyotr filipivich.
Just about the time you finally see light at the end of the tunnel,
you find out it's a Government Project to build more tunnel.

Keith

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Feb 12, 2010, 8:34:08 AM2/12/10

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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:14:18 -0500, Pedro Sanchez IV <pe...@sanchez.iv>
wrote:

> AGENT seems to be losing popularity or not I don't know..

The speed of your connection mainly depends on your bandwidth and the path
it takes to get to your news server from your ISP. A news server can
provide one hundred connections and 100 GB of bw at their site, but if
your band width is 1 kB/second and the path to the new server is slow it
won't do you much good.

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