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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs newsreader survey (results)
Keywords: info, survey
Message-ID: <1989Jul19.203650.27982@talos.uucp>
Date: 19 Jul 89 20:36:50 GMT
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Here are the results of the newsreader survey I began around three weeks
ago.  The original article was psoted 19 June to comp.emacs and
gnu.emacs.  It expired 11 July, but the responses continued to trickle
in, so I waited until they stopped.

   Newsreader           # of responses
   -----------------------------------
   GNUS	                140
   Gnews                48
   rnews                28
   batmail              1
   RMAIL (hacked)       1
   vn.el                1

I also received one response for "terminal-emulator + rn + emacsclient".
While not exactly what I had in mind, it's a clever idea.  RMAIL made a
surprise appearence here also.  Someone has actually hacked RMAIL into a
newsreader.  There were other RMAIL responses but only one indicated
that RMAIL actually went to the news spool for articles; the others used
RMAIL for reading mailing lists.