Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!bu-cs!bucsb!ckd
From: ckd@bucsb.UUCP (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnews
Subject: Using only part of Gnews?
Message-ID: <2673@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 89 14:26:13 GMT
Reply-To: ckd@bucsb.UUCP (Christopher K Davis)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Boston University School of Management
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To quote from a movie that's been really heavily trashed on the net lately:
"Excuse me... I'd like to ask a question..."

I use rn.  I really like rn.  I ftp'ed Gnews 2.0 from ucbvax, and I find that
it seems to be (a) really slow and (b) not actually working.  I'm certain I'm
doing something wrong, but I'm also wondering if it's not *still* going to
be slow (Lisp overhead).  Hence, my questions:

*1* is anyone using Gnews as a 'regular' (not NNTP) rn-clone?  I'm on a VAX
    running BSD 4.3.

*2* is there a way to use only the postnews and reply-mail functions of Gnews
    (and integrate them with rn)?  I'd love to have more emacs-intensive
    followup & reply, but I also like the speed of rn for reading.

--ckd
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