gnus: Browsing the Web
6.5 Browsing the Web
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Web-based discussion forums are getting more and more popular. On many
subjects, the web-based forums have become the most important forums,
eclipsing the importance of mailing lists and news groups. The reason
is easy to understand—they are friendly to new users; you just point and
click, and there’s the discussion. With mailing lists, you have to go
through a cumbersome subscription procedure, and most people don’t even
know what a news group is.
The problem with this scenario is that web browsers are not very good
at being newsreaders. They do not keep track of what articles you’ve
read; they do not allow you to score on subjects you’re interested in;
they do not allow off-line browsing; they require you to click around
and drive you mad in the end.
So—if web browsers suck at reading discussion forums, why not use
Gnus to do it instead?
Gnus has been getting a bit of a collection of back ends for
providing interfaces to these sources.
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