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There is one thing that Gnus was awesome at: dynamic scoring. It would monitor what you read and assign different weights to articles based on your habits: aut

There is one thing that Gnus was awesome at: dynamic scoring. It would monitor what you read and assign different weights to articles based on your habits: author of a post gets +10 points, keywords in a subject +2 points each, etc... Then it reordered the newsgroup articles based on these weights. After a week or so, you realize that when you enter a newsgroup, you will typically read the first 5-10 discussions that Gnus has put at the top of the list and just ignore the rest. It was magical and I don't think any other newsreader has ever come close to that.

edenc 16y ago
the three features that made me move into gnus: 1 - scoring - which you just mentioned 2 - group levels - you can assign levels to each of the mail groups/folders and it'll only download groups in each level at a time, it's very good for organization. 3 - integration with org-mode - you can add an annotated link to an email with a single keypress, it's a lot more productive than copy-pasting text because you know where the text came from and you can reply to the email on the spot, with another key press.