From harelb Sun May 12 16:12:32 1991 Received: by cabot.dartmouth.edu (5.61a+YP/4.1) id AA18782; Sun, 12 May 91 16:12:27 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 May 91 16:12:27 -0400 From: harelb (Harel Barzilai) Message-Id: <9105122012.AA18782@cabot.dartmouth.edu> To: wbc In-Reply-To: Harel Barzilai's message of Sun, 12 May 91 02:26:08 -0400 <9105120626.AA18571@cabot.dartmouth.edu> Subject: ispell and gnus Status: RO Thanks for the help with ispell. >rn works fine - if you have any problems, email me the specifics - >and please try to be very specific! Though I'll be leaving for Cornell later this summer(*), I'd like to make a case for GNUS for those who'll be around [I'll move the files and mail elsewhere for storage, so there will be very little if any in my account, but could you let me keep it for a while, if only for the use of a ".forward" ? I figure if the P.O. does this for a year "just in case" and if I use email much more than ordinary mail...] Not being a lisp programmer, I can't make an ideal case for GNU, except to say that everything I've learned so far has really impressed me quite a bit. "dired," the "filling" feature, and especially "rmail" (how else could I manage literally hundreds of pieces of email?) and keyboard macros have allowed me to manage in the same amount of time much, much more work (leaving out "trivial" things like many buffers at once) I'm including below two items from the GNUS package I ftp'd (then moved elsewhere to avoid another Meg of storage on this account (actually, it was <200K tar-compressed) :-) ; a short "testimony" from the net (was in the package), followed by a 5 paragraph intro (the "README" file, I think, from the package). I don't claim to understand everything ("NNTP") below, but my feeling (even before reading the "testimony") is that everything GNU/emacs I've learned so far was not just good, but a *big* improvement, very well thought out on their part too, etc.. Thanks again for the ispell help, which I've now set up for prof. Lamperti on his account. --Harel ################################################################## From: karl@godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Reading mail and news with a single GNUS Message-ID: Date: 23 Sep 89 04:37:59 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU Lines: 431 I get an awful lot of mail. Lately, I've been pushing 300 pieces/day. A lot of that's daemon-generated trash (read it fast and throw it away), a lot of it is non-critical mailing list stuff, and the rest is varyingly-important text intended specifically for myself. The normal mail tools I've found don't cut it for me, to make things manageable so I can read mail and get some Real Work done, too. So a few months back, under GNUS 3.11, I figured out how to convince GNUS to read mail and news in a single incarnation. [...] I don't promise that this is trivial to install, or anything like that. Parts of it (especially the pmd [personal mail deliverer] script) are extremely personalized, and how you put it to use depends on how you intend to try to classify your mail. The end result of the mess is highly desirable, however - a lot of mail divvied up into manageable categories that look for all the world like newsgroups. You will find (it was to my own unending joy) that you can use KILL files on your mail - what a neat idea. ################################################################## GNUS is a program for reading and writing USENET news using GNU Emacs. This is a brief introduction to GNUS. For more information, please refer to Texinfo manual gnus.texinfo. Unlike other conventional newsreaders such as rn which was (:-) the most popular newsreader in the world, GNUS runs inside the GNU Emacs editor as a subsystem. This means that there is no need to invoke an editor when composing articles or mail. The reading and writing of articles can be done in the same Emacs environment you usually work in. Like rrn, a remote version of rn, GNUS can use computer networks for retrieving articles. This means that there is no need to have a local copy of the news spool, to mount a remote file system over the network, or to run Emacs on a remote machine. Its great advantage is to balance loads and exploit resources of the entire computer system in a distributed environment. The protocol used by GNUS is "NNTP", the Network News Transfer Protocol, defined by RFC977. Unlike rrn, GNUS can talk to many NNTP servers easily. The only thing you have to do is to create startup files for each NNTP server. Like other libraries of GNU Emacs, GNUS is completely written in Emacs lisp. This means that GNUS is highly extensible and customizable just like GNU Emacs. It is possible to change the behavior of GNUS and extend its functions by using variables and hooks. GNUS is pronounced "NUZ". Never call it "ghu-NUZ" nor "ghu-NAS". ##################################################################