From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73350 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: assistants, again Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:14:13 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8762wxcb8q.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8762wys1q8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bp6qowqa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zkuanh10.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287576876 10501 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 12:14:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:14:36 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21721@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 20 14:14:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XYx-0004LC-6w for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:14:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XYp-0004XO-2s; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:14:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XYn-0004X7-Kg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XYm-0007ly-LR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P8XYl-0002wC-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:14:23 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8XYk-0004Hd-UF for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:14:22 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-14-16-248.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([24.14.16.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:14:22 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-24-14-16-248.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:14:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-14-16-248.hsd1.il.comcast.net 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" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wkkw7GmtQzEU63OaiyG0hN7C2p4= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73350 Archived-At: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:01:31 -0500 Ted Zlatanov wrote: >>> I don't know how to use assistant.el well (it's been years since you >>> wrote it) but I think it's reasonable to check if this is the first time >>> someone starts Gnus and then run assistants accordingly. We should >>> provide assistants to: >>> >>> - set up mail servers (providing a fast path for GMail and other popular >>> ones) >>> >>> - set up NNTP servers (including GMane and GWene) >>> >>> - set up archiving, expiry, spam.el, gnus-registry, gnus-sync, etc. (I'm >>> listing just my ideas, this should be everything useful) - also set gnus-blocked-images to something other than "." because the default is really annoying (but the user needs to approve in case they are paranoid) Ted