Re: Gnus vs Wanderlust

["Jochen Küpper" <jochen-+It19tn3Rl9sbm7dSapR3bNAH6kLmebB@public.gmane.org>]

Jumping in here only to give a somewhat different view. I still agree
that improved summary generation would be great.

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:26:57 -0400 colin rafferty wrote:

colin> Both of these choices make a lot of sense for newsgroups, since in
colin> general, what was in the summary before has already been read, and the
colin> user won't be interested in it again.  However, with regular mail, you
colin> want to see everything, so it doesn't make sense.

I mainly use Gnus as a MUA and use it for that reason. I would be
perfectly happy to read the few newsgroups I look at using anything.

I have fairly large mail-groups with archived stuff that I always
never need. A typical group for me could contain 500 or 2500 messages,
most of which are "old". Then there might be 10, sometimes 50 ticked
articles I keep "visible" because they require a reaction at some
point or another. In addition there are of course often 1--50 new
messages when I enter a group. Overall there are typically 10--50
messages to be shown in the summary... Not so bad. (Especially not so
bad for my brain wading through a group. With the full list of
messages I would go mad.)

Then I wanna check an old email I now I stored. Normally it is obvious
what group it is in, so I might go there and simply ask for all
articles, then limit it to author or subject or search the messages --
this (i.e. opening with all messages) can be horribly slow, maybe also
because often message numbers are sparse; however, it doesn't happen
too often. So I can live with some delay here...

In the end hiding articles and that for me is "added functionality"
most MUAs don't provide.

Greetings,
Jochen
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