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NewsWatcher

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240: 304: 83:, but did not receive it, with the evaluator noting as its "fatal flaw" that the application allowed posting from invalid email addresses. John Norstad revised the application and it later received the award, earning seal #00002. These revisions were later picked up by derived versions, enabling them to also pass the evaluation. 349: 288: 62: 342: 378: 100: 141: 80: 383: 281: 373: 335: 225: 189: 58: 274: 136: 97:, which called NewsWatcher "fast, clean, and easy to use, which is the result of nice touches at every level". 368: 91: 50: 203: 94: 86:
Varieties of Newswatcher were included in popular internet starter kits of the early 1990s such as
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The latest developed version was MT-NewsWatcher (MTNW), which was reviewed in 2002 by
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Version 2.0b24 of the original NewsWatcher was evaluated for the
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versions 7.0 until 10.5, the original NewsWatcher was written by
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John Norstad page including history of NewsWatcher development
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by others into a number of versions such as MT-NewsWatcher (
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it used became unsupported after Apple discontinued the
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Index

Newswatcher
freeware
open source
newsreader
Apple Macintosh
System software
Steve Falkenberg
John Norstad
forked
Multithreaded
Value Added

Yet Another
Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval
Adam Engst
Internet Starter Kit
book/cd combo

Archived
Wayback Machine
MacWorld

Open Transport
software library
Rosetta
List of Usenet newsreaders
Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
"NewsWatcher"
"GNKSA Evaluations"
"[Ann] MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.0 released"

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