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Article #8308Re: reading netnews in GNUemacs
From: Tim A. Grunwald
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 18:00
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 18:00
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In article <UMERIN.89Jan13121914@photon.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET>, umerin@photon (Masanobu UMEDA) writes: >GNUS is a netnews reader for GNU Emacs. It is an integration of rn and >vn, the most popular newsreaders, on Emacs with NNTP extension. GNUS >uses two window mode for reading articles in a newsgroup. Please try >it. We have been using Gnews to read netnews from spool files for the last month. It is flexible and powerful within the Gnu Emacs environment. There are a few complaints. First, Gnews can be *painfully* slow. It takes incredibly long to go from newsgroup to newsgroup. I don't see why it should take so long, but I have not checked the code. Second, novice users get lost very easily. Many incorrect or ill-timed responses die ungracefuly (messages like "nill, stringp"). It is easy to recover if you know to just ignore the message and use "g" to go to the next newsgroup. Has anyone else had the same problems? Have we installed it incorrectly? (We have eight sub-area networks connected to a backbone each with its own news spool files. So we read directly from the spool files) Is Gnus better than Gnews? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tim Grunwald Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC, 20551 uucp: uunet!fed!m1tag00 internet: m1tag00@fed.frb.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!fed!m1tag00@fed.frb.gov From: m1tag00@fed.frb.gov (Tim A. Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: reading netnews in GNUemacs Message-ID: <361@mqws2.fed.FRB.GOV> Date: 14 Jan 89 18:00:55 GMT References: <2908@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> <UMERIN.89Jan13121914@photon.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET> Sender: news@fed.FRB.GOV Reply-To: m1tag00@fed.frb.gov (Tim A. Grunwald) Organization: Federal Reserve Board Lines: 31 In-reply-to: umerin@photon.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET (Masanobu UMEDA)