Re: gnus and pine

[harven]

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.