From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc5c0fdbfd63e56a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: general comment on CLA Date: 1997/09/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 274229383 Sender: tardieu@esmeralda.enst.fr References: <1997Sep19.103110.1@eisner> Mail-Copies-To: sam@ada.eu.org To: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Organization: TELECOM Paris Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar writes: Robert> I have investigated, and as far as I know, no newsreader has Robert> this capability. I have on my list to hack one so it does, Robert> but goodness knows when I get around to that. Gnus (see http://www.gnus.org/), the (IMHO) best newsreader (and also mailreader) so far can do this very easily and this is even a FAQ. For people who could be interested in Gnus, it is a software running under (X)Emacs written by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen (lmi@gnus.org) which is very powerful. Since it runs under Emacs, it is available on almost every Unix platforms and under Windows NT. I couldn't recommend another news software since Gnus has unique features, such as: (some may be incorporated in other newsreaders, but probably not all of them) - adaptive scoring: if you want, Gnus can keep track of what words and combination of words you seem to be interested in. This way, it will increase the score of the threads containing these words; when you enter the group, the messages which are probably of highest interest to you are rpesented first - various backends: Gnus can read news and mail using NNTP, spool, Unix mail file, MH files, POP, IMAP, ... Your mails can be sorted into different groups (that have different priorities) based on the subject, the sender, the recipient, the body, ... Mails are shown just as news posts are, that is threaded, with priorities, with score and kill files, ... - some really useful backends such as the nnweb one: I can create a group which will consist into *any* article archived by Dejanews or Altavista for example containing the "Ada" word in the subject field. Gnus will make a HTTP connection to the search engine and will build an ephemeral group containing all the headers. When you ask for an article, it will get it from the same source and present it to you - the current development version (called Quassia Gnus) contains a new "agent" which allows off-line mail and news reading and posting. When you're plugged in, Gnus downloads the new mails and news posts and sends the one it has queued for you when you were off-line - fully integrated MIME support using TM. If you get a picture by mail and are running XEmacs, then the picture will be presented in your regular mail buffer if you are running under X It would take too much time and space to describe all the great Gnus features. It is really worth a try. And it is... free software :) Gnus is part of the recent Emacs and XEmacs releases. GNUS (the former newsreader which has inspired Gnus) could only read news, so make sure you are running a pretty recent (X)Emacs. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org