From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11761 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: harven Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus and pine Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:22:52 +0100 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: 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 1229964030 6527 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2008 16:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:40:30 +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 17:41:36 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 1LEnqZ-0003Ch-UK for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:41:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEnpN-0008RT-ES for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:40:21 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-b.proxad.net!nnrp5-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+7uJ6YAQ87LsbVWHYqTVkKoeSnw= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Dec 2008 17:22:54 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.240.200.149 Original-X-Trace: 1229962974 news-4.free.fr 11334 82.240.200.149:52190 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:82020 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:11761 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > > 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.... Pine is a mail client, not a newsreader. It has some capability as a newsreader, as a side effect, but that's not its primary goal. In fact, there are probably few Pine users that know they can read news with Pine. The fact is not even mentioned on the alpine webpage http://www.washington.edu/alpine/