Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs.gnus:390 gnu.emacs.gnews:49 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!arisia!quintus!unix!AI.SRI.COM From: felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus,gnu.emacs.gnews Subject: Re: GNUS vs Gnews Message-ID: <4129@unix.SRI.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 00:53:05 GMT References: <4057@unix.SRI.COM> Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM Reply-To: felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND) Followup-To: gnu.emacs.gnus Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 54 In-reply-to: msb@ho5cad.att.com (Mike Balenger) In article , msb@ho5cad (Mike Balenger) writes: >In article shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: >> On 30 Sep 89 22:56:28 GMT, >> felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND) said: > >> felix> I started with gnus a long time ago, but now I am a dedicated >> felix> Gnews user... (sound like a commercial) and I must say that it >> felix> is the "fastest" tool you can find to read news (I do not mean >> felix> fast in term of code, but in term of how long time you spend to >> felix> read news everyday). > >> This is interesting; most testimony I've seen tends towards the other >> direction. > >I'll second that. I used Gnews for about a year. I've been using >gnus for about 5 months. Although gnus is SLOWER fetching a >particular article, I can read news lots FASTER with gnus. The >summary allows me to prune unwanted articles without previewing them. >It's easier to learn, more powerful, more intuitive, more >customizable, uses STANDARD .newsrc format, runs right out of the box. >In short, it's more fit for use -- it's just lot's better. I must say that I disagree with some of your comments above, but most of them are subjective anyway... so I am not going to argue, it is obviously a question of taste. In general, I will say that everybody has his own style to read news. I like to be able to: - setup my own format line in index mode depending of the newsgroup, - be in index-mode automatically for some newsgroups not others, - index only if there are more than *variable* article, - use abbrev for newsgroup name, - have some index sorted on subject or date or not at all, - play with the most complex signature mechanism designed by a human brain... - switch in digest mode automatically (by newsgroup or article), - etc The last time I tried gnus, it was not providing these features. That's all. >Oh, gnus is constantly being enhanced. Last I heard, Gnews had not >been worked on in a year. No big deal if you like one or the other as >it curently stands, though. The last I have heard about Gnews is that Matthew Wiener (sp?) is working on a new version... Anyway, it is no big deal indeed... If you like it, keep it. If you don't, try another one. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Francois Felix INGRAND SRI International, AIC felix@AI.SRI.COM 333, Ravenswood Avenue felix%AI.SRI.COM@UUNET.UU.NET MENLO PARK, CA 94025, USA "Pourquoi tant de haine..." (Edika) "Read my Lisp... No new syntax" (nil)