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In article <361@arc.UUCP> chet@arc.UUCP (Chet Wood) writes:
   ...am I right in figuring that, because gnus has its own news
   group, it's more popular?  And could I deduce from the fact that
   it's more popular that it's "better?"

GNUS has its own news group because it already had its own mailing
list, and that made it easy for me to create a corresponding
newsgroup.  The longstanding tradition (all of 13 months now :-) in
the gnu heirarchy is that newsgroups are only created to better
distribute mailing lists.  There was no gnews mailing list, so there
was no corresponding gnu.emacs.gnews.  Then it turned out that most of
the discussion on info-gnus was in Japanese, using character sets that
looked like line noise on our Western screens, so I created the
info-gnus-english mailing list (as a subset of info-gnus) and switched
gnu.emacs.gnus over to it.

So, I suppose that I could just as easily create an info-gnews mailing
list as a justification for the existence of gnu.emacs.gnews, but I'm
not so inclined.  Anyone who would like to handle such a list is
welcome to do so, and we'll likely create a corresponding newsgroup
for it.

Yes, it does seem odd that newsgroups to discuss software that exists
only for handling newsgroups would be dependent for their very
existence upon corresponding mailing lists, but there are a lot of
odder things in this world...

In article <8906062327.AA04162@radio.astro.utoronto.ca> brian@RADIO.ASTRO.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Glendenning) writes:
   For me the bottom line is that gnus lets me get through the news
   faster, and that it appears to be more actively worked on.

Gnews development seems to have stopped with version 2.0 last fall.  I
haven't heard anything from its author (weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu)
since around that time.  Perhaps he has turned aside (I Kings 18:27)?