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From: harven <harven@free.fr>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus and pine
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:53:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ocz79kyc.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85tz8z7kwq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> harven <harven@free.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Then I guess the answer is « I decided to use $foo instead of $bar + $foo
>>> because $foo can do whatever $bar can do, after some customization »
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Whatever the reason was, it is a good reason.
>>
>> I am a bit surprised about the "4 millions users" for the pine
>> MUA. What is your source ?
>
> Arithmetic overflow?

Arithmetic underflow. 
The pine website reports 29 millions users, as of august 2006.
When first starting pine, a new user is prompted whether he wants
to send a message to the pine website. That's how the data are gathered.
See for details http://staff.washington.edu/corey/pine-stats/
I would be interested to know if there are statistics about the gnus userbase.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-20 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-16 10:44 harven
2008-12-18  6:33 ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found] ` <mailman.3044.1229622406.26697.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-12-18 21:55   ` harven
2008-12-19 10:24     ` Frédéric Perrin
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3109.1229682307.26697.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-12-19 11:38       ` harven
2008-12-19 21:43         ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]         ` <mailman.3140.1229723201.26697.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-12-20  0:25           ` David Kastrup
2008-12-20 10:53             ` harven [this message]
2008-12-22  6:26               ` Xavier Maillard
2008-12-22  9:21                 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2008-12-22 10:31                   ` Xavier Maillard
2008-12-22 11:41                   ` Reiner Steib
     [not found]               ` <mailman.3228.1229928365.26697.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-12-22 11:25                 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-22 13:50                   ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.3241.1229957171.26697.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-12-22 15:27                     ` Richard Riley
2008-12-22 16:22                   ` harven
2008-12-22 16:27                     ` Richard Riley
2008-12-22 17:14                       ` harven
2009-01-04  0:54                 ` Joe Fineman

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