From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeff Clough Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternatives to Gnus Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:42:02 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider 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=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291947312 13460 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:15:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:15:12 +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 Dec 10 03:15:08 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 1PQsVo-0007Kr-5u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:15:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQsQR-00088q-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:09:35 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!bnewspeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Injection-Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="VDM3607lx+ft0F522riMcQ"; logging-data="31356"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19xoxWdhkI22KaN1GqRgoTe" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hMFurcaaHp4Cpl3YkhMzRC+tSZw= sha1:5puyi0vjEOIQ6svES5pV+v5gnkQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181083 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:09 -0500 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:77168 Archived-At: Francis Moreau writes: > I mean, something that is actively maintained and enhanced. And has > also a pretty big users community. I think my original paragraph below sums it up. And given the user base of Gnus, I'm not sure I'd describe any alternative as having "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 ? Well, part of it was the lack of news. Or, at least, any obvious indication that Mew actually does news. The rest boil down to wanting/needing a larger feature set and having a more "hack-friendly" package. With Gnus, it's highly likely that any feature or ability you want is already there. With Mew, it's likely not and the code doesn't (in my opinion) lend itself well to tinkering with. Again, just my opinion. Mew may work fine for you as a MUA. Jeff -- web: http://www.chaosphere.com Author of Genesys, a Free Universal Paper and Pencil RPG. http://www.chaosphere.com/genesys/