(offtopic?) making gnus easier

["David Chmelik" <dchmelik@nwinfo.net>]

    It would be nice if gnus was "easy" as gui; it seems hard as old things
like tin, but I will not use gui except when writing more prose than than
code.  Is a lisp authors' book recommended, or is gnu doc enough?  Gnus
bewilders me (and non-coders in many more ways likely:)
many help sections, little toc description
many variables, little variable descriptiveness
    I am joking about this descriptiveness; it is overdone like xemacs (i
should try emacs "menus.")  Maybe it is easier for syadmins, or Sage helps
(no one near me does.) but from the pov. of a not total hard computer
scientist, even using gnus oneself is a problem (I relearned how to skip
gnus' "reading..," but 1/2 the time it usually will not unsubscribe: after
marking read & unsubscribing a couple times: it ignores you, or keeps
doing it like read-only grouplist:)
  gnus vs gnus-unplugged (rarely unplugs)
  gnus-activate-level (i did not check: unrelated to vga)
  gnus-agent (overkill for users; 'J' does nothing)
  gnus-cacheable-groups (this & next 2 in docs supposedly prevent loading)
  gnus-check-new-newsgroups
  gnus-read-active-file
  gnus-secondary-select-methods (someone on #gnus implied secondaries do not
immediately load.)
  gnus-use-cache (not near its' group list?)
    I take cs technical writing class next; this part is ignorant comments on
help; now skip if you want.  You have to know texinfo and emacs lisp.
like: "the summary 'buffer::'" "... posting ..."
"the article 'buffer'::" "... handling articles ..."
"composing messages::"  "... sending ..."
I use the buffer, but others will also not know the difference in chapter
descriptions: which go on like this for 50.  Undefined is ok in doshelp; not
texinfo.
    I offered to donate/pay for docs/help to solve this, but "make" also needs
free software docs comparing Bsd & gnu make.  I will not write much; as
without discussion i struggle into summer break to even use glibc & make;
unless i can help and someone else who prefers console & posix over 9 yr
thinks so.  But, i will ignore extra groups; gnus-mail will solve things if it
is nice.  I only studied lisp to write exercises, but may get the book.
sincerely, David Chmelik
(Darwin at the fsf)