From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11758 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus and pine Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:50:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87k59suxmn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <85tz8z7kwq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229957186 15152 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2008 14:46:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:46:26 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 22 15:47:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LEm48-0002VT-3I for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:47:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEm2v-0007Ma-7E for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:46:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEm2s-0007M5-UE for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:46:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEm2r-0007Lj-8F for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:46:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60034 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEm2r-0007Lg-5M for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51825 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LEm2q-0005er-Pu for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LEm2i-0004rd-IP for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:46:00 +0000 Original-Received: from cha51-2-82-244-211-40.fbx.proxad.net ([82.244.211.40]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:46:00 +0000 Original-Received: from xma by cha51-2-82-244-211-40.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:46:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cha51-2-82-244-211-40.fbx.proxad.net X-Gnus-Agent-Gcc: nnfolder+archive:sent-messages User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P1ZI58B2XW8dtFGM7CJMkg0p940= X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:11758 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: >>> 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. Do you mean people leaving Emacs for a "modern" alternative or people choosing an alternative without even knowing emacs exists ? That's not the same: we can't loose something we never had ;)