Xavier Maillard <[email protected]> writes: > harven <[email protected]> writes: > >> David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Xavier Maillard <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> harven <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
