Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Re: Novice GNUS questions Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 89 22:13:39 GMT References: <8905250557.AA24607@radio.astro.utoronto.ca> <361@arc.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: gnu Lines: 29 In-reply-to: chet@arc.UUCP's message of 6 Jun 89 21:33:01 GMT In article <361@arc.UUCP> chet@arc.UUCP (Chet Wood) writes: > Hmm.. There wasn't an Info package in the gnus distribution I got... I am mailing you the gnus.texinfo for GNUS 3.11; that is, as long as my mailer can find you (it hates UUCP with a passion). I have it split into four ~35k files for a recent mailing I had to make to someone else. > I've been wondering if I made the right decision-- am I right in > figuring that, because gnus has its own news group, it's more popular? Um, hard to say. The group really wasn't created out of sheer popularity (I _think_; no promises here) but because the author is in Japan and this group made it easier for GNUS users to communicate with each other and him. (If I am wrong about this I am sure I will be soundly chastised by either Bob or Masanobu.) I do see GNUS mentioned more then Gnews on the net, but that is hardly a scientific poll. > And could I deduce from the fact that it's more popular that it's > "better?" Could you ever really make that conclusion based soley on something's popularity? Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) "I realize the Internet isn't the whole world, but it is the center of it." -- Greg Woods