Re: gnus and pine

[Richard Riley]

Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

> harven <harven@free.fr> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> harven <harven@free.fr> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Then I guess the answer is « I decided to use $foo instead of $bar + $foo
>>>>> because $foo can do whatever $bar can do, after some customization »
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>> Whatever the reason was, it is a good reason.
>>>>
>>>> I am a bit surprised about the "4 millions users" for the pine
>>>> MUA. What is your source ?
>>>
>>> Arithmetic overflow?
>>
>> Arithmetic underflow. 
>> The pine website reports 29 millions users, as of august 2006.
>> When first starting pine, a new user is prompted whether he wants
>> to send a message to the pine website. That's how the data are gathered.
>> See for details http://staff.washington.edu/corey/pine-stats/
>
> This is really astonishing. I do not pretend that these numbers
> are wrong or something like that but except Linus, I never met
> somebody using Pine (well you are the second in fact).

Ditto.

My Gnus displays the mail/news client used to post and unless people are
disguising their client, it's very rare I see Pine in use.

The numbers must be wrong....

>
>> I would be interested to know if there are statistics about the gnus 
>> userbase.
>
> Gnus is popular but I am pretty comfident there are not that much
> users.

A few tens of thousands? And possibly diminishing as emacs loses share
with the plethora of alternatives available unfortunately.