From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57710 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted Zlatanov" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new user assistant Date: 25 May 2004 14:45:30 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nekp88hx1.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4nd653nm2i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nzn86honu.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nk6z9bk8n.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <4n65amj5ko.fsf@lifelogs.com> <65akveaz.fsf@random.internal> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085511846 11522 80.91.224.253 (25 May 2004 19:04:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:04:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6250@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 25 21:03:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BShDK-00005F-00 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 21:03:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BShCB-0003fT-00; Tue, 25 May 2004 14:02:39 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BShC2-0003fL-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 May 2004 14:02:30 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BShC0-0001l1-43 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 25 May 2004 14:02:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.bwh.harvard.edu (sysblade0.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.44]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98FC3A003A for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 14:02:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 13729 invoked from network); 25 May 2004 18:56:41 -0000 Envelope-Sender: tzz@lifelogs.com Envelope-Recipients: ding@gnus.org, Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu (HELO asimov) ([134.174.9.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.bwh.harvard.edu (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 May 2004 18:56:40 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" In-Reply-To: <65akveaz.fsf@random.internal> (Derrell Lipman's message of "Tue, 25 May 2004 09:15:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57710 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57710 On Tue, 25 May 2004, Derrell.Lipman@unwireduniverse.com wrote: > If you're going to provide a choice at this point, and a link to the further > documentation, then why add the extra page required by "Choose manually"? Why > not replace "Choose manually" by the list of other backends? Seems like less > coding for the programmer (no extra set of questions/answers), and less > clicking/tabbing for the user. Selecting "Next" can still choose the default > nnml backend. That was my original design, and it's bad because it confuses the user with too much technical lingo they don't care to learn. I think nnimap should be a first-tier choice, because it is very common among ISPs. So nnml and nnimap should be the first-tier choices (maybe nntp as well), and the other backends can be selected on a separate screen. Ted