From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Galen Boyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Thunderbird to Emacs migration Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:27:27 -0500 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Message-ID: References: <87y6hxku7l.fsf@kobe.laptop> <4b9b1ffb$0$29861$c33e2976@unlimited.newshosting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272993453 19202 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 17:17:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:17:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 19:17:32 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O9LkS-0001RR-7q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9LkR-0000JX-Ay for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:17:31 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.93.196 Original-X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1268533653 56395 24.34.93.196 (14 Mar 2010 02:27:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:27:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bZvkK6+JszJbf3O1fc/V3YgJxSA= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177459 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:72975 Archived-At: David Rogoff writes: > On 2010-03-12 15:15:26 -0800, Giorgos Keramidas said: > >> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:08:37 -0600, John Bokma 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 --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---