From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Bonow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternatives to Gnus Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:17:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87y6blupsd.fsf@withouthat.org> References: <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> <8739ttwcoq.fsf@withouthat.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291865070 28452 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 03:24:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:24:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 04:24:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQX7L-0006om-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:24:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40990 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQX7K-0000fz-8J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:24:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: news.dfncis.de n5ZXCz7mlqCyg9fyG82d+wmZwwekYmKo/HVyHzbNSOrXNmE5GyPsAY3Lly Cancel-Lock: sha1:I+o6eor2elBGnpNm8B54592XdwE= sha1:4UAlA8f1PNgmqiOzpqWxO6/s/zQ= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181063 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76539 Archived-At: >>>>> "Francis" == Francis Moreau writes: Francis> On Sep 1, 8:17 pm, Thorsten Bonow Francis> wrote: [...] Francis> Why don't you use Mew for both mails and news ? I do nothing fancy with GNUS, it just works for me. Up to now, if I had some time on my hands, I always found something more important to learn or configure about my Linux box and GNU Emacs. >> I love it, because it's rock solid, feature rich, supported and blends >> well into GNU Emacs. Francis> Is it well supported ? Activily developed for ages. Francis> Is it fast ? I haven't bought a new computer since 1999, I like tinkering with old ones. Mew is fairly fast on my box over here (Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz). Francis> Thanks Hope this helps... Toto -- "No amount of googling and copying and pasting can replace the intellectual flexibility developed by reading whole books." Alan Gibbons (The Observer, 23.11.08: 'Top authors say books beat googling' by Liz Lightfoot)