From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31047 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Harris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Python Emacs (was Re: The .. rule) Date: 17 May 2000 15:55:41 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <00May12.111709edt.115683@gateway.intersys.com> <200005121547.RAA12153@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <200005172027.WAA16517@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <019e01bfc047$07748130$0500a8c0@rufus> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167502 11843 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:31:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:31:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0AFD0520 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 19:01:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB10842; Wed, 17 May 2000 18:01:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 17 May 2000 18:00:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04699 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 18:00:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from horus.primus.com (seafw01.primus.com [206.253.199.40]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8DA6D0520 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 19:00:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from hodge.primus.com (hodge.primus.com [198.187.136.4]) by horus.primus.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10134 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 15:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from sharris@localhost) by hodge.primus.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id PAA24927; Wed, 17 May 2000 15:55:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hodge.primus.com: sharris set sender to sharris@primus.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: "Eric S. Johansson"'s message of "Wed, 17 May 2000 17:29:47 -0400" Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) XEmacs/21.1 (Canyonlands) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31047 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31047 "Eric S. Johansson" writes: [...] > A case in point is Gnus. I'm very impressed at its power but using it to > read IMAP e-mail is sufficiently difficult that I've given up and gone back > to outlook (or pine on heavy virus days). One of these days when I have a > week to spare, I'll go back to using it as my newsreader. For now, tin is > sufficiently simple that I can do what I want without needing to spend a lot > of time learning. I didn't find there to be any extra complexity in using Gnus to read from an IMAP server as opposed to a local spool. If you already use Gnus as a newsreader and you subscribe to any mailing lists, I can't see there being a better tool than Gnus to actually get _value_ out of the mailing lists. Reading lists always seemed like a hopeless mess with other mail tools. Personal mail benefits as well. Gnus is the only thing that could finally knock me off of Outlook and Pine. If only we didn't need Outlook at work... -- Steven E. Harris Primus Knowledge Solutions, Inc. http://www.primus.com