[Evolution] Re: Advice

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

troy hakala <troy recipezaar com> writes:

> You're right that a separate newsreader that is solely focused on
> being a newsreader is ultimately better, especially for power
> users. 

I claim that's incorrect.

Gnus is one of the best mail clients or news readers there is.  It is
that way because it's extremely powerful at dealing at news _or_
email.  The fact that it treats newsgroups and email (and web
discussion boards, and slashdot, and Deja, and web mail archives) the
same way, giving the same tools throughout, is the reason it's so
useful.  

Essentially, there's not much difference between a mailing list and a
newsgroup, other than transport.  If a client can handle one well, why
not the other?  It's sad to say that most dedicated mail readers or
news readers do not handle their respective realms as well as Gnus
does.  The only reason I can't recommend Gnus to everyone is the
interface, and that has more to do with having grown insanely over the
last decade or so than being able to read news and email.

Of course, if you were to settle for something like Outlook for
reading news, you'd might as well separate them.

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