[ On Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 01:14:22 (GMT), Stephen Leake wrote: ] > Subject: Re: english text only? > > Can you say why? I read email and new with Emacs Gnus, and I can't > tell the difference between the email and the news; they are all just > groups. What news reader software have you tried, and not liked?
GNUS is way to huge, way too slow, and way to horrible to use for e-mail. (without expert tuning it's also way too dangerous -- desiring by default to do stupid and dangerous things like interpret HTML) I like it for news though -- it's easier for me these days than the baroqueness of 'trn', which was once my favourite newsreader, and 'rn' was what I used before that. I've used 'tin' a fair bit, but I don't like it that much. I've been reading e-mail with ViewMail for nearly a decade I think (my earliest CVS repo for the vm source started 1994/03/28, but I'm reasonably certain I started using VM daily well before that, even while I still used mailx, Mail, and mostly 'mush' a lot). Pine users have the best of both worlds, but I can't stand Pine (it might not be Elm, which I HATE even more, but it's way too non-unixy) Netscrape/Mozilla users have decent integration too, but they're infinitely too GUI for me (not to mention being horrid pigs and of course unusable entirely on text-only sessions). > Will subscriber-only access allow me to post via the newsgroup? I don't see why not. The gateway software has to be a subscriber anyway, so only a stupid mis-configuration could prevent it from working both ways like it does now. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs