From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4532 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Is the modern Internet destroying GNUS? Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:14:56 GMT Message-ID: References: <877jl7hvm3.fsf@outershell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670427 23668 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:20:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:55 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uio.no!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny04.POSTED!099a252d!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dlOt0edvwXZvSMLwBZfW7XJ4Efs= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.160.155.61 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: trndny04 1108739696 68.160.155.61 (Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:14:56 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:14:56 EST Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4673 Original-Lines: 24 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4673 Tue Jan 17 17:33:55 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4532 Archived-At: pip writes: > I'm a recent addition to the Gnus user base and really appreciate > its power and flexibility but feel a little disappointed I can't use > it as I would like. With usenet full of spam and emails full of HTML > and unquoted references I have a nasty feeling there will never be a > way I can happily use Gnus at work. As to spam, I find that my visual system is a wonderful instrument for ignoring it. On the newsgroups I browse, I ignore most of the postings that are not spam, so ignoring spam is not a large additional burden. As to HTML, I agree with some others in this company that in email & newsgroups it is an almost sure sign of spam. It is true that in some mailing lists people reply with a default that dishes out the HTML for you to skip over after you have read the plain text; but that is merely ignorance & rudeness, like not deleting the irrelevant parts of what is being replied to; it is annoying, but it is not an overwhelming nuisance, and it is not Gnus's fault. -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: You're talking in my sleep. :||