It's a bit strange how this article applies the past tense. Gnus still works fine, can be used to read mail, and despite some questionable design decisions such

It's a bit strange how this article applies the past tense. Gnus still works fine, can be used to read mail, and despite some questionable design decisions such as line-based .overview files, can handle quite a bit of mail with its nnml backend. I don't use that much of Gnus functionality actually, but the threading, disappearance of messages I have read, and the ability to score down the occasional high-noise thread is well worth it. I cursed a lot when we switched to Gmail at work and the auto-creation of mailing list folders no longer worked (it's no longer predictable if list mail has a List-Id: header due to internal Gmail deduplication), but I found a reasonable solution to that as well (which I probably should write up and post somewhere). Some even gate mailing list mail into a news server like INN so that they can keep using their favorite newsreader. Thankfulyl, with Gnus, that isn't necessary.