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From: felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus,gnu.emacs.gnews
Subject: Re: GNUS vs Gnews
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Date: 3 Oct 89 00:53:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: msb@ho5cad.att.com (Mike Balenger)

In article , msb@ho5cad (Mike Balenger) writes:
>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.

I must say that I disagree with some of your comments above, but most
of them are subjective anyway... so I am not going to argue, it is
obviously a question of taste.

In general, I will say that everybody has his own style to read news.
I like to be able to:
- setup my own format line in index mode depending of the newsgroup,
- be in index-mode automatically for some newsgroups not others,
- index only if there are more than *variable* article,
- use abbrev for newsgroup name,
- have some index sorted on subject or date or not at all,
- play with the most complex signature mechanism designed by a human brain...
- switch in digest mode automatically (by newsgroup or article),
- etc

The last time I tried gnus, it was not providing these features. That's all.

>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.

The last I have heard about Gnews is that Matthew Wiener (sp?) is
working on a new version...

Anyway, it is no big deal indeed... If you like it, keep it. If you
don't, try another one.
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