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From: cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Subject: Re: GNUS vs Gnews
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Date: 4 Oct 89 00:26:48 GMT

msb@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Mike Balenger) writes:
| BOTH  products are better than  any stand alone  news reader.  There's
| lots to be said for having your editor and mailer handy while you read
| news.

 Depending on what's meant by "handy", one doesn't necessarily have to
run an Emacs-based newsreading tool to achieve this; the combination
of IPC and some form of windowing let you do this fairly easily (for
example, I'm writing this reply using GNU Emacs and MH, spawned off
from an rn in another X11 window).

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