From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alternatives to Gnus
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:15:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8f21e8e-f494-4710-8b53-586427de6adc@q2g2000yqq.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m37hj4tkku.fsf@logrus.localdomain
On Sep 2, 2:07 pm, Jeff Clough <j...@chaosphere.com> wrote:
> Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Mew also supports reading news, but I've never used it for that.
>
> > I took a quick look at its documentation and I haven't seen any news
> > reading support.
>
> > Is it well supported in Mew or is it something like using gnus for
> > emails ?
>
> In my use of Mew I found only a passing mention to nntp in a random
> section of the reference manual, but no documentation as to how to
> actually read news with it or any claim that it did so.
>
> As for how "well supported" it is, that will depend on your definition.
I mean, something that is actively maintained and enhanced. And has
also a pretty big users community.
> There's a mailing list but it gets very little traffic, and I've seen
> some questions/comments go unanswered by the maintainer for two or three
> weeks. That said, the manual on the Mew site is great, gives you all
> the information you need in one place and the software will take about
> fifteen minutes to set up.
>
> Mew ultimately didn't meet my needs,
Why not ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-02 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-01 16:31 Alternatives to Gnus Francis Moreau
2010-09-01 18:17 ` Thorsten Bonow
2010-09-01 19:22 ` Francis Moreau
2010-09-01 21:17 ` Thorsten Bonow
2010-09-01 18:31 ` Rafael
2010-09-01 19:19 ` Francis Moreau
2010-09-01 22:31 ` Tim X
2010-09-02 8:06 ` Francis Moreau
2010-09-02 9:51 ` Tim X
2010-09-02 15:11 ` Francis Moreau
2010-09-02 22:37 ` Tim X
2010-09-03 7:04 ` Francis Moreau
[not found] ` <m37hj4tkku.fsf@logrus.localdomain>
2010-09-02 15:15 ` Francis Moreau [this message]
2010-09-02 15:42 ` Jeff Clough
2010-09-02 20:54 ` Francis Moreau
2010-09-02 22:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-03 7:01 ` Francis Moreau
2010-09-03 13:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-03 19:50 ` Francis Moreau
2010-09-07 16:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-08 20:22 ` Francis Moreau
[not found] ` <i69chc$8li$1@quimby.gnus.org>
2010-09-09 8:11 ` Francis Moreau
2010-10-01 17:35 ` Markus Gessner
2010-10-02 1:37 ` Tim X
2010-10-13 9:07 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-13 21:16 ` Tim X
2010-09-28 2:12 ` David Combs
2010-09-28 3:01 ` Duke Normandin
2010-09-30 20:17 ` Francis Moreau
2010-10-01 18:27 ` notbob
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