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Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:

  > Actually there is another quite fundamental difference between
  > mail and news (which makes using gnus - by origin a news reader-
  > harder to configure to read mail ):
  >         news is stored somewhere else: it's volatile; if you want
  >         to keep it you have to do something
  >         mail is stored locally by you: it's permanent; if you want
  >         to delete it you have to do something
  > This is how most newsreaders and mail programs work; this is also
  > what people expect them to do. Therefore transport class (or at
  > least `storage class') does matter.

This fundamental difference is quite blurred with Gnus.  You can even
set it up such that the "in news, you have to do something to keep it,
in mail, you have to do something to delete it" is reversed!

And with IMAP, mail isn't stored locally.

kai
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