What I loved about Gnus the most was that, by default, once you read a mail you would never see it again. You could, of course, search through read mail, or tic

What I loved about Gnus the most was that, by default, once you read a mail you would never see it again. You could, of course, search through read mail, or tick the mail so it would remain visible, but doing nothing was the equivalent of archiving on Gmail. Before Gmail came around, this was an amazing way to handle mail. I quit using Gnus about the time I quit reading Usenet. Gnus is too much for just mail. And now Gmail is around, which is good enough for me.