Re: Thunderbird to Emacs migration

[Galen Boyer]

David Rogoff <david@therogoffs.com> writes:

> On 2010-03-12 15:15:26 -0800, Giorgos Keramidas said:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:08:37 -0600, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:

[...]

> vm is much easier to use for mail than gnus.  gnus is great as a
> (text) Usenet newsreader, but it just wasn't designed as a mail
> program and the attempts to make it so have all seemed pretty crazy to
> me.  

I think that statement is missing the "IMHO", because lots of folks do
not agree with you.  I love Gnus treating mail as just another
newsgroup, because to me, that is what mail should be treated as.

> I gave it a try for a while but it just required the user to do things
> the way gnus wanted and not what made sense as a mail program.  

Lars probably answered that in calling VM a "proper mail reader".

-- 
Galen Boyer

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