google news groups, or outlook express?

[JD]

Are there any statistics that sugest the number of folks that come to news
groups from google news goups, as aposed to other sources or programs like
outlook express?

Sorry if this is abit off topic.

JD

 

[David Dorward]

Are there any statistics that sugest the number of folks that come to news
groups from google news goups, as aposed to other sources or programs like
outlook express?

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<http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&lr=&num=100&hl=en>

 

[Sam Hughes]

Are there any statistics that sugest the number of folks that come to
news groups from google news goups, as aposed to other sources or
programs like outlook express?

Sorry if this is abit off topic.

For alt.html, you can see the top ten user agents by looking for a posting
titled something along the lines of ALT.HTML STATISTICS for [date].

Here is a chart, but they do not explain how they get their data.
<http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/ngstats/overview-newsreaders.html>

 

[Sam Hughes]

Here is a chart, but they do not explain how they get their data.
<http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/ngstats/overview-newsreaders.html>

Oh, this is for popular excel newsgroups. Never mind.

 

[Default User]

Are there any statistics that sugest the number of folks that come to news
groups from google news goups, as aposed to other sources or programs like
outlook express?

Sorry if this is abit off topic.

It doesn't even make sense, as you are comparing different things.
groups.google is a news service with an embedded HTML-based newsreader.
That's the only way to use the google service and the google service is
the only one that can be used with that newsreader. Other newsreaders
like OE are irrelevant, you don't choose the google reader out of
preference for its abilities, you choose it because you want to (for
whatever reason) use google to read news.

Therefore, the real question is, "what percentage of participants in a
newsgroup use groups.google as their newsfeed?" The answer is, a very
small percentage. In some groups, it's vanishingly small.




Brian Rodenborn

 

[Dan Abrey]

It doesn't even make sense, as you are comparing different things.
groups.google is a news service with an embedded HTML-based newsreader.
That's the only way to use the google service and the google service is
the only one that can be used with that newsreader. Other newsreaders
like OE are irrelevant, you don't choose the google reader out of
preference for its abilities, you choose it because you want to (for
whatever reason) use google to read news.

Therefore, the real question is, "what percentage of participants in a
newsgroup use groups.google as their newsfeed?" The answer is, a very
small percentage. In some groups, it's vanishingly small.

Surely Google is in direct competition with OE, say. Both are free. Both
have the facility to download and read usenet messages from a server (I know
Google has it's own, but that doesn't make much difference in this
instance), and both are, in the flesh, newsreaders.