Re: Alternatives to Gnus

[Francis Moreau]

On Sep 2, 2:07 pm, Jeff Clough <j...@chaosphere.com> wrote:
> Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Mew also supports reading news, but I've never used it for that.
>
> > I took a quick look at its documentation and I haven't seen any news
> > reading support.
>
> > Is it well supported in Mew or is it something like using gnus for
> > emails ?
>
> In my use of Mew I found only a passing mention to nntp in a random
> section of the reference manual, but no documentation as to how to
> actually read news with it or any claim that it did so.
>
> As for how "well supported" it is, that will depend on your definition.

I mean, something that is actively maintained and enhanced. And has
also a pretty big users community.

> There's a mailing list but it gets very little traffic, and I've seen
> some questions/comments go unanswered by the maintainer for two or three
> weeks.  That said, the manual on the Mew site is great, gives you all
> the information you need in one place and the software will take about
> fifteen minutes to set up.
>
> Mew ultimately didn't meet my needs,

Why not ?