From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gnus and No Gnus Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:11:08 -0400 Message-ID: <6jhbvdlxmb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87eiqinpvi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252393898 5342 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2009 07:11:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 07:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17387@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 08 09:11:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MkurQ-0004g2-Tf for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:11:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MkurG-0002Ym-9l; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MkurE-0002YN-BF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:11:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MkurC-00047a-OJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:11:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Mkuro-00046w-00 for ; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:11:52 +0200 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Mkur6-00053P-E5; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:11:08 -0400 X-Spook: Al-Qaeda Reno NSA Firefly Echelon blackjack covert video X-Ran: Fcn[V;3yYp:vc9L{g2c1ZWG9s!RKrDM3~m3~J[*p}-ig=|L!U0lVf)'nlVS4K[BCK`bPI: X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87eiqinpvi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:15:29 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68970 gmane.emacs.devel:115120 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: > Polls of corporate Emacs users (the last one I've seen was about > October 2007) showed that about 1% use Emacs 18, about 10% use Emacs > 19 or Lucid 19, about 20% using Emacs 20 or XEmacs 20. I forget what > current Emacs was at that time, but by extrapolating I suspect there > are indeed a lot of people still using Emacs 21 out there today. Sure, people use old versions of Emacs. But do they need to run the latest version of whatever-mode in those old versions? Personally, I have no problem saying "sorry, you must upgrade to use the latest awesome-mode.el".