Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!att!cbnewsh!ho5cad!msb From: msb@ho5cad.att.com (Mike Balenger) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Re: GNUS vs Gnews Message-ID:Date: 2 Oct 89 08:51:04 GMT References: <4057@unix.SRI.COM> Sender: msb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM Reply-To: msb@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Mike Balenger) Followup-To: gnu.emacs.gnus Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 37 In-reply-to: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 2 Oct 89 02:11:21 GMT 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. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael S. Balenger (201) 949-8789 AT&T Bell Labs Room 1L-405 msb@ho5cad.att.com Crawfords Corner Road att!ho5cad!msb Holmdel, NJ 07733