From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: FCC Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Efficient Emacs usage? Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:58:53 +0100 Organization: UPC Message-ID: References: <87mzx9bu1c.fld@barrow.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101150057 10571 80.91.229.6 (22 Nov 2004 19:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 22 20:00:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CWJQj-0001X0-00 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:00:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CWJZn-0003g8-Cg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:10:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.rediris.es!news.cesca.es!news.upc.es!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: adca05.upc.es Original-X-Trace: defalla.upc.es 1101149943 17606 147.83.51.18 (22 Nov 2004 18:59:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmngr@upc.es Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Nov 2004 18:59:03 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87mzx9bu1c.fld@barrow.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126816 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22216 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22216 Floyd L. Davidson articulated on 11/22/2004 7:47 PM: > >>(sorry, gnus does not count for me, although I am very much >>aware of its popularity among Emacs users, because probably it would be >>more efficient for me if I did not have to check or send e-mails and >>also spend less time on the internet). >> >> > >I do not understand what you are saying there. What it appears >to say doesn't make sense. To put it mildly, Gnus is the most >efficient and effective Usenet *and* email user agent available. > >If you currently deal with more than say a couple hundred emails >a day, moving to Gnus from just about anything else will result >in a significant time savings. On the other hand, even if you >don't deal with that many emails... use Gnus and you can then >go out and subscribe dozens of mailing lists, even if some of >them are of marginal value, just because it can be done >*without* putting you into an email bind that wastes your time. > > > I wanted to draw attention to the fact that most internet activity, including processing of e-mails with their ever-increasing number is a time sink, since I was talking about the efficiency. -- FCC. === Of course I don't look busy... I did it right the first time. -Anonymous