From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Question regarding the new multiplaned x-face
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:20:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylbsfwr5ni.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <microsoft-free.x4zo3gr8gs.fsf@slackware.mynet.pc> (Steve Youngs's message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:19:47 +1000")
Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> writes:
> OK, but what is it about these that makes them more popular than Gnus?
> Is it "ease of use"?
This is one of the major objections that I hear from people on getting
started with Gnus. It's a very complicated program that's somewhat
difficult to configure unless you've already done a lot of Emacs
configuration.
The other main objection that I hear from people using other mail clients
on Unix is that using Gnus requires using Emacs. If one's preferred
editor is vim, using mutt and slrn makes more sense. That one there isn't
much that we can do about.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-12 20:27 Torsten Hilbrich
2002-01-14 5:31 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-01-14 12:11 ` Steve Youngs
2002-01-14 18:23 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-01-14 20:19 ` Steve Youngs
2002-01-14 21:19 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-01-14 21:20 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2002-01-15 2:53 ` Andrew J Cosgriff
2002-01-15 10:52 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-01-25 16:12 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-01-19 22:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-20 14:18 ` Oystein Viggen
2002-01-20 15:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-21 2:01 ` Daniel Pittman
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