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From: brian@RADIO.ASTRO.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Glendenning)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: Novice GNUS questions
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Date: 6 Jun 89 23:27:50 GMT
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Chet Wood writes:
 > 
 > When I first started reading news, I did a quick test drive of both
 > Gnews and gnus, and even though gnus seemed more friendly and less
 > unwieldy, I decided to use Gnews because it had an info package.

As I recent Gnews to gnus convert maybe I can shed some light on this.

Gnews seems to be much more adaptable. For instance the hooks to
implement signatures are awesomely intricate, and the digest reading
capability is superb.

gnus seems to have a better basic user interface. I find that I
trundle through the same amount of news more quickly (although Gnews
loads faster initially). This, to me is the single most important
point. The Newsgroups buffer is also a very good idea.

It does appear that Gnews might be an orphan, and that gnus is more
popular (read - more useful hooks etc being written). I vaguely recall
that when I first looked at gnus it didn't have a manual. This was a
big strike against it. The manual is now quite good (though I'd give
the nod to Gnews here).

For me the bottom line is that gnus lets me get through the news
faster, and that it appears to be more actively worked on.
--
	  Brian Glendenning - Radio astronomy, University of Toronto
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