Re: Using R-mail in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 22:07:47 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > We are miscommunicating. You think I'm
> > talking about protocols, whereas I'm really
> > talking about the essence and the nature of
> > communications. Email and news groups are
> > fundamentally different mediums, no matter
> > what protocols are used to conduct those
> > communications. E.g., there's no private
> > messages in a news group.
> 
> The awesome and fascinating thing with Gnus is
> that you can have all those different channels
> of communications available, using different
> technologies under the hood, but still
> accessing them all from the same program, using
> the same interface!
> 
> Writing this, in the header section is the
> header
> 
>     Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> 
> but if I wanted to, I could add
> 
>     Cc: joe-lamer@hackers.com
> 
> and hit `C-c C-c'. That would send the message
> as a post to gnu.emacs.help , but also as
> a mail to Mr. Joe.

That's exactly my point: Gnus is treating email as a weird kind of a
newsgroup, and that has its limitations.