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From: msb@ho5cad.att.com (Mike Balenger)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: GNUS vs Gnews
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Date: 2 Oct 89 08:51:04 GMT
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In article  shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:
> On 30 Sep 89 22:56:28 GMT,
> felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND) said:

> felix> I started with gnus a long time ago, but now I am a dedicated
> felix> Gnews user... (sound like a commercial) and I must say that it
> felix> is the "fastest" tool you can find to read news (I do not mean
> felix> fast in term of code, but in term of how long time you spend to
> felix> read news everyday).

> This is interesting; most testimony I've seen tends towards the other
> direction.

I'll second that.  I used  Gnews for about a   year.  I've been  using
gnus   for  about  5 months.    Although gnus is    SLOWER  fetching a
particular  article,  I can read   news lots FASTER  with   gnus.  The
summary allows me to prune  unwanted articles without previewing them.
It's easier to   learn,    more   powerful,  more  intuitive,     more
customizable, uses STANDARD .newsrc format, runs right out of the box.
In short, it's more fit for use -- it's just lot's better.

Oh, gnus is  constantly being enhanced.   Last I heard,  Gnews had not
been worked on in a year.  No big deal if you like one or the other as
it curently stands, though.

BOTH  products are better than  any stand alone  news reader.  There's
lots to be said for having your editor and mailer handy while you read
news.


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