Good ${greeting_time}, Stephen!

01 Mar 2016 21:06:52, you wrote to me:

 >> I bet it's significantly less popular than, say, golded + msged +
 >> hotdoged together.
 SH> But three message editors is a very small drop in a very large
 SH> bucket.

However, these three message editors cover over a half of the whole Fidonet.

 SH> Your original post said nothing about popularity.

It said something about common practice.

 SH> Baked, DCTEdit, EXyEdit, FSEdit, GEdit, IceEdit, OM, PEdit, QuickEd,
 SH> QuikEdit, SabreEDIT, SHEDIT, SyncEdit, TurboEDIT, TIDE, ExtraEdit,
 SH> YEDIT, ZAFFER, SETEDIT... and those are just the ones in the BBS
 SH> Archives.

Yes - they are in archives. Compare that to actively developed golded (with
recent release at 2016-02-01 and over 2000 users), msged (which is about to
become first message editor running in a terminal with native support for
Unicode) or hotdoged (de facto standard for mobile points on Android devices).

 SH> Most message editors are BBS software and most of them do not do
 SH> quoting like that.  The most popular in various regions is a
 SH> completely different discussion.
 >> How many thousands of people do use it?
 SH> Synchronet doesn't do data collection, and most Synchronet boards
 SH> aren't connected to FidoNet.

So they are out-of scope here.


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