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Re: Novice GNUS questions

#834
From: David C Lawrence
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1989 22:13
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In article <361@arc.UUCP> chet@arc.UUCP (Chet Wood) writes:
> Hmm.. There wasn't an Info package in the gnus distribution I got...

I am mailing you the gnus.texinfo for GNUS 3.11; that is, as long as
my mailer can find you (it hates UUCP with a passion).  I have it
split into four ~35k files for a recent mailing I had to make to
someone else.

> I've been wondering if I made the right decision-- am I right in
> figuring that, because gnus has its own news group, it's more popular?

Um, hard to say.  The group really wasn't created out of sheer
popularity (I _think_; no promises here) but because the author is in
Japan and this group made it easier for GNUS users to communicate with
each other and him.  (If I am wrong about this I am sure I will be
soundly chastised by either Bob or Masanobu.)  I do see GNUS mentioned
more then Gnews on the net, but that is hardly a scientific poll.

> And could I deduce from the fact that it's more popular that it's
> "better?"

Could you ever really make that conclusion based soley on something's
popularity?

Dave
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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
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Subject: Re: Novice GNUS questions
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Date: 6 Jun 89 22:13:39 GMT
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