From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11763 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: harven Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus and pine Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:14:25 +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 1229967645 21185 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2008 17:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:40:45 +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 18:41:51 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 1LEomk-0000kx-D8 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:41:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEolW-0008MA-Tb for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:40:26 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp15-1.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:SRz9IkYIKEe9CVclBnfVVyZwNSc= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Dec 2008 18:14:27 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.240.200.149 Original-X-Trace: 1229966067 news-1.free.fr 6841 82.240.200.149:52240 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:82022 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:11763 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > harven writes: > >> 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 > > 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.