From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41997 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Question regarding the new multiplaned x-face Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:20:33 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177305 9069 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:15:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 2584 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 21:21:17 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 21:21:17 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16QEXK-0007Yl-00; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:20:58 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:20:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA18342 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:20:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 2559 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2002 21:20:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2554 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 21:20:40 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 21:20:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 779 invoked by uid 50); 14 Jan 2002 21:20:34 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Steve Youngs's message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:19:47 +1000") Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41997 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41997 Steve Youngs 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)