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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Why doesn't someone create and easy to use rn?
Summary: First experience with gnus
Message-ID: <674@wet.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 89 01:19:37 GMT
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Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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I received mail from someone suggesting that I look at GNUS.

I grabbed the sources from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu and dropped
them onto a NeXT running the 1.0 release (which, interestingly
enough, comes with the gnus documentation (which wasn't in 0.9),
but not gnus itself).  It was relatively painless to install
(wow!) and worked well, if a bit slowly.  I wasn't too impressed
with the built-in help, but the "real" documentation is quite
good.  Hint: use the newsetup(1) script from rn to set up an
initial .newsrc; gnus doesn't do as good a job, and takes a long
time.

While I personally prefer rn, there are considerable benefits to
running in the GNU emacs environment, so I intend to support it.

(For someone who knows: how's weemba's Gnews?)

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