Re: gnus and pine

[Xavier Maillard]

harven <harven@free.fr> writes:

> 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/

This is really astonishing. I do not pretend that these numbers
are wrong or something like that but except Linus, I never met
somebody using Pine (well you are the second in fact).

> 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.