From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:35:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83in38j5bc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <837ejplc7p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhwlzct5.fsf@gmail.com> <87d0tgh6rx.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <865zz8e0kd.fsf@zoho.com> <861s9wdytg.fsf@zoho.com> <86worocffa.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536950036 6628 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2018 18:33:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:33:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 20:33:52 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0suc-0001c6-ET for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:33:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52905 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0swi-0004eI-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:36:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0sw0-0004dE-JV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0svx-0000w7-Dc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0svx-0000vm-6F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1282 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g0svw-0008IZ-OW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:35:13 -0400 In-reply-to: <86worocffa.fsf@zoho.com> (message from Emanuel Berg on Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:38:33 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117923 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:38:33 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > No interface can ever make email look like > > a newsgroup. > > Gmane (pronounced "mane") is an e-mail to > news gateway. It allows users to access > electronic mailing lists as if they were > Usenet newsgroups [...] Since Gmane is > a bidirectional gateway, it can also be > used to post on the mailing lists. [1] We are miscommunicating. You think I'm talking about protocols, whereas I'm really talking about the essence and the nature of communications. Email and news groups are fundamentally different mediums, no matter what protocols are used to conduct those communications. E.g., there's no private messages in a news group.