Drats!

Drats!

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

I forgot about the anniversary this year as well:

Sun Dec 11 06:32:40 1994  Lars Ingebrigtsen  <lars@eyesore.no>

	* gnus.el: The very first (ding) Gnus pre-release. 

... hey, it's still December 11th in some parts of the world, so I'm
not really too late!

It's been, ah, two years.  Seems much longer.  :-)  But it's been
fun.  Lah-dee-dah.  I'm not very at making speeches.  So, uhm.  Like.
You know.  

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: Drats!

[Steve Dunham]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> I forgot about the anniversary this year as well:

> Sun Dec 11 06:32:40 1994  Lars Ingebrigtsen  <lars@eyesore.no>

> 	* gnus.el: The very first (ding) Gnus pre-release. 

> ... hey, it's still December 11th in some parts of the world, so I'm
> not really too late!

> It's been, ah, two years.  Seems much longer.  :-)  But it's been
> fun.  Lah-dee-dah.  I'm not very at making speeches.  So, uhm.  Like.
> You know.  

Thanks Lars, it's one of my favorite pieces of software.


Steve
dunham@gdl.msu.edu

Re: Drats!

[Per Abrahamsen]

I have run a bit of statistics on the local spool, counting the
newsreader specified by X-Newsreader or X-Mailer.  Here are the top 10
result for the `gnu.*' hierarchy:

2201 *Gnus*
1607 Unidentified
 777 Mozilla
 457 TIN
  76 Forte Free Agent
  75 WinVN
  71 Microsoft Internet News
  50 slrn
  45 Other
  33 VM

Gee, makes one wonder why JWZ gave up XGnus to work for a loser
company like Netscape :-).

Ok, the results are slightly less impressive for the `comp' hierarchy,
but it still makes it to the top 10:

29564 Unidentified
27020 Mozilla
10232 TIN
 9682 Forte Free Agent
 9396 Microsoft Internet News
 6582 Forte Agent
 2926 WinVN
 2895 NewsWatcher
 2395 News Xpress
 2047 *Gnus*
 1803 IBM NewsReader/2
 1346 Other
 1191 NN
 1163 slrn
  892 Turnpike
  801 THOR
  776 knews
  750 NeoLogic News
  495 Trumpet
  342 Gravity
  337 Demon Internet Simple News
  280 MacSOUP
  272 Alexandra.app
  246 AOL
  210 Nuntius

Re: Drats!

[Andrew C. Feren]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> 
> 
> I have run a bit of statistics on the local spool, counting the
> newsreader specified by X-Newsreader or X-Mailer.  Here are the top 10
> result for the `gnu.*' hierarchy:
> 
[ Gnus is #1 ]
> 
> Gee, makes one wonder why JWZ gave up XGnus to work for a loser
> company like Netscape :-).
> 
> Ok, the results are slightly less impressive for the `comp' hierarchy,
> but it still makes it to the top 10:
>
[ Gnus is #10 ]

	Does this mean more people use gnus or that we are just more
	prolific authors (not to mention more interesting :-). 

-- 
-Andrew Feren  (feren@ctron.com)
 Cabletron Systems Inc.
 Durham, NH

Re: Drats!

[Michael Lamoureux]

 "per" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

per> I have run a bit of statistics on the local spool, counting the
per> newsreader specified by X-Newsreader or X-Mailer.

per> Ok, the results are slightly less impressive for the `comp'
per> hierarchy,

Hmmm, a high rank in the comp.* hierarchy is to be expected, I think.
The really interesting checks would be on the soc.* and rec.*
hierarchies to see if Gnus users are well-rounded or not.  ;-)


IMHO,
Michael

Re: Drats!

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Speaking of statistics, somebody just did a tally of newsreaders used
in Norwegian newsgroups.  Here's an excerpt:

     73346 READERS IDENTIFIED IN 85064 FILES
     23217 Mozilla
     12363 Gnus
      8537 Forte Free Agent
      5189 Microsoft Internet News
      5122 Forte Agent
      3281 TIN
      2282 THOR
      2192 WinVN
      1782 Yet Another NewsWatcher
      1764 News Xpress
      1373 slrn
      1100 MacSOUP
       681 Pine
       665 Trumpet for Windows
       659 knews
       399 ICE Crisis
       330 IBM NewsReader

Patriotism strikes again, I guess.  :-)

feren@ctron.com (Andrew C. Feren) writes:

> 	Does this mean more people use gnus or that we are just more
> 	prolific authors (not to mention more interesting :-). 

I'd guess Gnus users are generally "heavy" posters, but that's just a
feeling I have.  I wish I was doing Gnus for my master's thingie; then
I would do all sorts of neat statistical analyses.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: Drats!

[Danny Siu]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

  Lars> I forgot about the anniversary this year as well: Sun Dec 11
  Lars> 06:32:40 1994 Lars Ingebrigtsen <lars@eyesore.no>

  Lars> 	* gnus.el: The very first (ding) Gnus pre-release.

  Lars> ... hey, it's still December 11th in some parts of the world, so I'm
  Lars> not really too late!

  Lars> It's been, ah, two years.  Seems much longer.  :-) But it's been
  Lars> fun.  Lah-dee-dah.  I'm not very at making speeches.  So, uhm.
  Lars> Like. You know.

Can't imagine how bad my life would be without GNUS!

Thanks Lars!

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Re: Drats!

[Per Abrahamsen]

Michael Lamoureux <lamour@engin.umich.edu> writes:

> Hmmm, a high rank in the comp.* hierarchy is to be expected, I think.
> The really interesting checks would be on the soc.* and rec.*
> hierarchies to see if Gnus users are well-rounded or not.  ;-)

I did the statistics, and let me summarize them this way: 
If you use Gnus, you apparently don't need other recreations.

Re: Drats!

[Wesley.Hardaker]

Lars> Speaking of statistics, somebody just did a tally of newsreaders used
Lars> in Norwegian newsgroups.  Here's an excerpt:

Lars>      73346 READERS IDENTIFIED IN 85064 FILES
Lars>      23217 Mozilla
Lars>      12363 Gnus
...
Lars> Patriotism strikes again, I guess.  :-)

...  Either that you you've personally written 12363 articles ;-)

Actually, it would be better to analyse them based on addresses.  I
actually had set up bbdb to capture mailreader lines, just for
curiosity, on every article I read.  But that was back at Davis and it
would be skewed as well based on the fact I didn't read every
article...

Hey!!!

(in ~/News/nnml/ding)
8:28am iptsun2 [109]: grep X-Mailer * | grep -v Gnus
2266:X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
2291:newsreader specified by X-Newsreader or X-Mailer.  Here are the top 10
2292:> newsreader specified by X-Newsreader or X-Mailer.  Here are the top 10
2294:per> newsreader specified by X-Newsreader or X-Mailer.

ELM!!!

And here I was hoping for 100% gnus in the ding list...

Wes