harven <[email protected]> writes: > David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes: > >> Xavier Maillard <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> harven <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
