Subject: how many pine sites/users?n

From: John de Boer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 23:21:29 +1000 (EST)

I am curious to know about how many sites/users there are using Pine
compared to
 Elm?  And how these numbers compare to say Eudora and do you need a
program like
 Pine or Elm with a program like Eudora?

Regards   John de Boer

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 21:57:25 +0800 (GMT)

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, John de Boer wrote:

> compared to Elm?  And how these numbers compare to say Eudora and do you
> need a program like  Pine or Elm with a program like Eudora?

Impossible to know.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:47:27 -0700 (PDT)

> I am curious to know about how many sites/users there are using Pine

Over the past several years, our document autoresponder has heard from
well over six million Pine users... Can't say how many of them still use
it, but we can say from local experience that only half of our population
asked for the add'l documentation from the autoresponder... So the number
of users might be on the order of ten million, but it is impossible to
know with precision. 

I can't recall the corresponding site count, but it's many thousands.

> compared to Elm?

I have no idea how many people use Elm.

> And how these numbers compare to say Eudora 

I believe Qualcomm commissioned a study recently that concluded there are
also ten million Eudora users (my memory could be off a couple mill
either way.)

> and do you need a program like Pine or Elm with a program like Eudora? 

Standards vary.  Eudora doesn't yet support IMAP, which makes it unusable
for many of us.  Of course, PC-Pine would be the version to compare most
directly to Eudora, since comparing a native GUI mailer to a
character-based Unix timesharing mailer introduces quite a few apples and
oranges... 

-teg