From: Galen Boyer <galen_boyer@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Thunderbird to Emacs migration
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:27:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uociriqnk.fsf@www.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4b9b1ffb$0$29861$c33e2976@unlimited.newshosting.com
David Rogoff <david@therogoffs.com> writes:
> On 2010-03-12 15:15:26 -0800, Giorgos Keramidas said:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:08:37 -0600, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:
[...]
> vm is much easier to use for mail than gnus. gnus is great as a
> (text) Usenet newsreader, but it just wasn't designed as a mail
> program and the attempts to make it so have all seemed pretty crazy to
> me.
I think that statement is missing the "IMHO", because lots of folks do
not agree with you. I love Gnus treating mail as just another
newsgroup, because to me, that is what mail should be treated as.
> I gave it a try for a while but it just required the user to do things
> the way gnus wanted and not what made sense as a mail program.
Lars probably answered that in calling VM a "proper mail reader".
--
Galen Boyer
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-12 21:08 Thunderbird to Emacs migration John Bokma
2010-03-12 23:15 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2010-03-13 5:17 ` David Rogoff
2010-03-13 21:44 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2010-03-14 2:27 ` Galen Boyer [this message]
2010-03-14 9:55 ` Vagn Johansen
2010-03-14 11:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-14 12:25 ` Teemu Likonen
2010-03-16 17:40 ` Uday S Reddy
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