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[swaits]

Not really, no.

[btilly → swaits]

Read http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6594 and then tell me which of the simple described features are not in gmail. Be specific so that I can be specific in explaining how it is, in fact, present.

(Do remember that gmail's keyboard shortcuts were designed by people who had used Usenet extensively.)

[foobarqux → btilly]

How about "T K" (mark current message and children as read) and "A T" (go up-thread to original post) in gnus.

If your claim is that Gmail implements most of the "simple" features present in powerful news-readers then it is manifestly absurd.

[btilly → foobarqux]

My claim was that the list of things in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2622662 are in gmail.

Of course real newsreaders have a lot of features that gmail doesn't.