Re: Is the modern Internet destroying GNUS?

[Joe Fineman]

pip <ihate@spam.com> writes:

> I'm a recent addition to the Gnus user base and really appreciate
> its power and flexibility but feel a little disappointed I can't use
> it as I would like. With usenet full of spam and emails full of HTML
> and unquoted references I have a nasty feeling there will never be a
> way I can happily use Gnus at work.

As to spam, I find that my visual system is a wonderful instrument for
ignoring it.  On the newsgroups I browse, I ignore most of the
postings that are not spam, so ignoring spam is not a large additional
burden.

As to HTML, I agree with some others in this company that in email &
newsgroups it is an almost sure sign of spam.  It is true that in some
mailing lists people reply with a default that dishes out the HTML for
you to skip over after you have read the plain text; but that is
merely ignorance & rudeness, like not deleting the irrelevant parts of
what is being replied to; it is annoying, but it is not an
overwhelming nuisance, and it is not Gnus's fault.
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