On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, GNU Hacker wrote:
I use GNU Emacs to read mail list and to read newsgroups
Yeah, I know Emacs could. Several people here use Emacs Gnus (for Netnews and probably also for mailing list with the same interface), Emacs ERC (for chat), Emacs EWW (for web browsing), Emacs Org (for outlining + personal notes), and many more; probably more than one of them at the same time too.
But for myself personally, out of all the GNU-things that I have (quasi-)maintained, used, or learned (this includes old-school esoteric things like GNU Ed, GNU RCS, GNU Sed, and GNU AWK); Emacs the first GNU-thing, utimate text desktop suite x super macro writing toolkit is still one of the things that I have yet to find my own excuse to learn.
Regards, ~xwindows
P.S. This email is written and sent from on-host Alpine installation inside Tilde.club. (Alpine is the main read/post interface I normally use for both Tildeverse Netnews and Tilde.club email/mailing-list)
P.P.S. I have brought up the low level details, because I do not necessarily interact with email and Netnews via applications' user interface. (Especially with Tildeverse Netnews, which I use one of the 11 methods to read/post/archive/debug [1] since I live a semi-offline life, and I'm kinda-sorta a de-facto person responsible for investigating or fixing problems about Netnews here)
[1] 5 of them are newsreaders (3 TUI, 2 GUI) 3 of them are MIME-level tools (2 for posting [1 bespoke], and 1 for reading [bespoke]), 3 are transport-level utilities (1 set for file, and another two sets for NNTP)
^ Of course, you don't need to remind me that Emacs could be retooled to do all of that; but that requires me to master using Emacs and writing Emacs Lisp first; which for reasons I already said above, I don't currently have time to do that.