From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is gnu.emacs.gnus dead? Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:42:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87wptxjpq9.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <84twp227ry.fsf@example.com> <8xxlhaeeiwe.fsf@village.keycorner.org> <87lhadl6zh.fsf@debian.uxu> <87vb9h7357.fsf@yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446680617 31857 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2015 23:43:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 23:43:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 00:43:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zu7iA-0004LY-VL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:43:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57704 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zu7iA-0004AC-5I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:43:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60768) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zu7hw-00049v-0s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zu7hq-0003ks-VZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:43:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zu7hq-0003kD-ON for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zu7ho-000436-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:43:04 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:43:04 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:43:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5DfuBir/BiSbE1tgZZBrVT7p5fY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107941 Archived-At: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes: >>> I recently adopted Gnus as my main mail/newsreader. >>> I stopped posting when I didn't have any more major >>> questions. It may be that way with a lot of users >>> -- nothing more to say once you're not having any >>> more problems. :) >> That is rather indicative of stagnation, > > Gnus is not stagnated, check the log of the repo > (http://git.gnus.org/cgit/gnus.git/log/) is quite > active for being such an old program (which is a good > thing). > >> lack of interest... > > There is no lack of interest, the active list is > gmane.emacs.gnus.general > >> It is not just new users that should do new stuff >> with the software. Not a good sign if so! > > Quite the opposite happens for gnus (possibly because > of the steep learning curve), see > http://git.gnus.org/cgit/gnus.git/stats/?period=m&ofs=-1 > those are old users. You misread my post. What I said applies to what the other poster said, not Gnus. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573