Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Re: Novice GNUS questions Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 89 20:46:48 GMT References: <8905250557.AA24607@radio.astro.utoronto.ca> <361@arc.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Bob Sutterfield Distribution: gnu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 34 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: ...am I right in figuring that, because gnus has its own news group, it's more popular? And could I deduce from the fact that it's more popular that it's "better?" GNUS has its own news group because it already had its own mailing list, and that made it easy for me to create a corresponding newsgroup. The longstanding tradition (all of 13 months now :-) in the gnu heirarchy is that newsgroups are only created to better distribute mailing lists. There was no gnews mailing list, so there was no corresponding gnu.emacs.gnews. Then it turned out that most of the discussion on info-gnus was in Japanese, using character sets that looked like line noise on our Western screens, so I created the info-gnus-english mailing list (as a subset of info-gnus) and switched gnu.emacs.gnus over to it. So, I suppose that I could just as easily create an info-gnews mailing list as a justification for the existence of gnu.emacs.gnews, but I'm not so inclined. Anyone who would like to handle such a list is welcome to do so, and we'll likely create a corresponding newsgroup for it. Yes, it does seem odd that newsgroups to discuss software that exists only for handling newsgroups would be dependent for their very existence upon corresponding mailing lists, but there are a lot of odder things in this world... In article <8906062327.AA04162@radio.astro.utoronto.ca> brian@RADIO.ASTRO.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Glendenning) writes: 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. Gnews development seems to have stopped with version 2.0 last fall. I haven't heard anything from its author (weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu) since around that time. Perhaps he has turned aside (I Kings 18:27)?