From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57828 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: assistance Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:08:58 +0900 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87d64grxph.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086307796 5441 80.91.224.253 (4 Jun 2004 00:09:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 00:09:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6369@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jun 04 02:09:49 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 1BW2HN-0001y8-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 02:09:49 +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 1BW2Gm-0002Gj-00; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:09:12 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BW2Gf-0002Gd-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:09:05 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BW2Ge-0004nR-Vs for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:09:05 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C0D3A005F for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 19:09:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BW2Gd-0008AP-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 02:09:03 +0200 Original-Received: from yokohama2-61-203-152-194.ap.0038.net ([61.203.152.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 02:09:03 +0200 Original-Received: from miles by yokohama2-61-203-152-194.ap.0038.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jun 2004 02:09:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yokohama2-61-203-152-194.ap.0038.net System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:K3EVnA/HS0Uf1YXcqNMqnDBmO+A= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57828 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57828 It's great to see assistants being worked on -- I set up someone with Gnus the other day, and though newsreading was going, I _could not_ figure out how to set up mail-reading (using maildir)! I've been using Gnus (and GNUS) for some ungodly length of time (~14 years), and have used it to read mail myself for a long time, so I sorta knew what variables etc. to look at; I read the texinfo manual[*], read the code, and read the docstrings, and still couldn't get it to work. I suppose I should have starting googling for HOWTOs or something, but at that point the guy I was helping got too frustrated and gave up for the day. [*] Which, despite its size, inevitably seems to describe everything _except_ what I'm looking for ... :-( -Miles -- 自らを空にして、心を開く時、道は開かれる