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. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121020002725.GC11895@tal