From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11747 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: harven Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus and pine Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:53:31 +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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229773297 27961 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2008 11:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:41:37 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 20 12:42:42 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 1LE0E3-0001WM-AX for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:42:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39535 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LE0Cq-00076a-WC for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:41:17 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!212.27.60.64.MISMATCH!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp13-1.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:EthxmVsoATaspslcHtYLJ8ilNVs= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Dec 2008 11:53:32 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.240.200.149 Original-X-Trace: 1229770412 news-4.free.fr 13211 82.240.200.149:50655 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:82005 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:11747 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Xavier Maillard writes: > >> harven 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.