From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
Subject: Re: How many articles to read...?
Date: 24 Mar 1999 23:45:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vhfqo6bx.fsf@slowfox.frob.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dmitry Yaitskov's message of "24 Mar 1999 16:32:45 -0500"
Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> Is it really so? Agreeing with your other points, I don't think you're
> exactly right saying that gnus is primarily a newsreader. Ok, I know
> that that's what it's called. Still, of all the people using gnus, how
> many do you think use it for news only, using something else for mail?
> Probably a lot, but I think another "a lot" uses it for both... if for
> no other reason than to not having to learn all the keys, shortcuts
> and quirks of another program. And as a matter of fact it *is* a very
> nice mail reader.
Right. The very fact that it pretends that mail is the same as news
makes it so nice.
kai
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-24 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-24 19:59 Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-24 20:14 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-03-24 20:27 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-24 21:05 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-03-24 21:32 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-24 22:45 ` Kai.Grossjohann [this message]
1999-03-24 21:06 ` Justin Sheehy
1999-03-26 8:08 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
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