Re: gnus and pine

[harven <harven@free.fr>]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> harven <harven@free.fr> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> 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
>
> I know - but like Gnus it CAN read both.
>
> My display of client is for both mail and news.
>
>> 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/
>
> Which reduces even further the chance of that many millions of users....

Don't be jealous. I will agree though that there was probably some migration
from pine to thunderbird in 2007. Thunderbird is however pretty much 
difficult to emulate with gnus, since it is mouse-driven.