Re: Wally Lepore
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 06:00:35PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Chris Bannister writes:
> > Last I looked, Gnus was a newsreader...
>
> You didn't look very closely. Gnus works quite well for both news and
> email and offers all the advantages of a newsreader such as groups,
> killfiles, scoring, and threading. It is intended to be used for both.
Ahh. OK, Should I have said "Last I looked, Gnus was a newsreader but if
you jump through a few hoops and get used to a different paradigm it can
be used as an MUA. If you know, and enjoy LISP then configuring it
will be an enjoyable experience."?
> > ...and requires emacs to be installed.
>
> So what?
A newcomer to Linux who is advised to use Gnus, should at least be
warned that they will be installing emacs.
I will add that, if anyone does take the emacs+gnus route they will have
a powerful and versatile system which a lot of developers/users swear by.
On the other hand, a lot of developers/users swear by the vim+mutt route.
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oppressing." --- Malcolm X
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