From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73941 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Improving Gnus speed Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:49:19 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <798w12h5zi.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289321407 3352 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2010 16:50:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:50:07 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22310@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Nov 09 17:50:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFrOU-0003iR-V9 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PFrOO-0002m1-Rr; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:49:56 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PFrON-0002lj-IU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:49:55 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PFrOL-0008Gs-T3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:49:55 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com ([209.85.161.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PFrOL-0002P8-00 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:49:53 +0100 Original-Received: by fxm3 with SMTP id 3so1082696fxm.17 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:49:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:organization :references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-type; bh=k1+wQrTdaGQUxxJuYl1WXNMIvNL1tg5WPFBKuOXeG0E=; b=R0dOKgMbxggKtBT3XbhawHHCNnUVzJKsTV/4Q+KK7J/G61MwTiw/HGFMq+yoAzw1Hd Ct7Pfsob2TBCoJglqNCTIaNVnc+vnpFjt2UTnOqNejyla/eZv5YSO2IevJcA2kZq1yYT AEO54hsNnI+/D6NEpnZd+M15Bd/sQ9sAwXOPQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=BqRyGbGHgklroxWbZEc5SMvGPdSM3I3mzE1s7htknOhCfX9Qop6nFOwouLW8GIS1Pm S91ROA7OBO9CfEsS2PjHgTqqVcbPMSY4PIrFwsQ5/noLZwhfv+Ki3bxVWiyehc+31ywO OxOjgf/kjkhsbII0BwQ0ExeyqilmqMIG4Uq9o= Original-Received: by 10.223.98.204 with SMTP id r12mr786070fan.100.1289321362726; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:49:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost ([85.183.18.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm793616fal.0.2010.11.09.08.49.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:49:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Didier Verna's message of "Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:35:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73941 Archived-At: Didier Verna writes: > Richard Riley wrote: > >> And that means what? Its just indicative of the complexity of the >> product and the rather famous Gnus Manual in particular. > > No, it is indicative of the fact that its needs more energy to > implement mail reading in Gnus than only news reading (and also that it > is more complex to do it). And since this work has been done, as the > documentation proves), it is indicative of the fact that reading mail in > Gnus is in fact at least as important as reading news (since people are > willing to spend so much time and energy on it). Gnus is still a news reader. I assumed you were joking too. Apparently not. The entire look and feel is that of a newsreader. The complexity of the mail part is as a result of the newsreader approach - something I like. Many of course dont preferring more traditional mail clients.