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From: umerin@photon.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet (Masanobu UMEDA)
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Subject: GNUS vs. Gnews
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Date: 29 Jun 89 00:27:35 GMT
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   Date: 23 Jun 89 17:33:20 GMT
   From: m1tag00%fed.frb.gov%fed@uunet.uu.net  (Tim A. Grunwald)
   Organization: Federal Reserve Board

	   I use Gnews as my news reader.  It works pretty well.  I 
   especially like the indexing capability of Gnews.  

GNUS has the same functionaly, of course.

	   One feature missing from Gnews that I would really like
   is a dired mode on all the news group names (an option for subscribed
   groups only, or all news groups).  One could move randomly through all
   the news group names reading only those that interested them that day.

GNUS has all the functionalities you want.

	   Does GNUS solve any of the problems I have with Gnews?
	   What features does GNUS have that Gnews doesn't and vice versa?

GNUS uses three Emacs buffers: Newsgroup buffer is for browsing
newsgroups, Subject buffer for browsing subjects and other important
headers in a newsgroup, and Article buffer for browsing an article.

You can select a newsgroup in the Newsgroup buffer using dired like
interface.  When you select a newsgroup in this buffer, the Subject
buffer and the Article buffer are displayed instead of the Newsgroup
buffer, and the point is placed in the Subject buffer.  In Subject
buffer, you can browse through headers in the newsgroup, and you can
read articles you are interested in.

In addition, these window configurations can be customized using an
Elisp variable.  For example, you can display these three buffers at
the same time.

Please try GNUS!

Masanobu UMEDA
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