From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternatives to Gnus Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> <87zkw1p036.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291865650 30200 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 03:34:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:34:10 +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 04:34:04 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 1PQXGd-0001D6-Pc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:34:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48128 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQXGc-00069e-RG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:34:02 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q2g2000yqq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.235.205.153 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1283440517 20010 127.0.0.1 (2 Sep 2010 15:15:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:15:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q2g2000yqq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.235.205.153; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.51 Safari/534.3, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181082 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:76556 Archived-At: On Sep 2, 2:07=A0pm, Jeff Clough wrote: > Francis Moreau 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. =A0That 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 ?