From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11754 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus and pine Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:51:14 +0530 Message-ID: References: <85tz8z7kwq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87abaowwrq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229937707 22277 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2008 09:21:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:21:47 +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 10:22:54 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 1LEh00-00075T-IS for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:22:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEgyn-0007sr-Rv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:21:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEgyh-0007pH-VC for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:21:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEgyg-0007nf-Dh for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:21:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50667 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEgyg-0007nV-3w for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:21:30 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54768 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LEgyf-0005ui-Pl for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:21:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LEgyX-0002Sf-7r for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:21:21 +0000 Original-Received: from 122.167.120.111 ([122.167.120.111]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:21:21 +0000 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.167.120.111 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:21:21 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.167.120.111 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:N8jRnxUqTik2uUDZa4rc7vg+Cg8= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:11754 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard writes: [...] >> I would be interested to know if there are statistics about the >> gnus userbase. > > Gnus is popular but I am pretty comfident there are not that much > users. You can say that again. In the organisation where I work, so far apart from me, none. And all I get questions on a) hey, what's that pic (gnus splash screen) b) why are you working on MSDOS screens (I have a white on black screen setup for Emacs) Methinks, Gnus followers must be in the low thousands which itself might be optimistic? :-) sivaram --