Re: gnus and pine

[harven]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

>
> My Gnus displays the mail/news client used to post and unless people are
> disguising their client, it's very rare I see Pine in use.
>
> The numbers must be wrong....

Pine is a mail client, not a newsreader. It has some capability
as a newsreader, as a side effect, but that's not its primary goal. In
fact, there are probably few Pine users that know they can read
news with Pine. The fact is not even mentioned on the alpine webpage
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/