Re: gnus and pine

[Richard Riley]

harven <harven@free.fr> writes:

> 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

I know - but like Gnus it CAN read both.

My display of client is for both mail and news.

> 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/

Which reduces even further the chance of that many millions of users....

-- 
 important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the 
satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation 
of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.  ~Dennis Gabor, 
Innovations:  Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970