From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75134 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Edmondson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Poll time: Topics should default to on or off? Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:30:01 +0000 Organization: none Message-ID: <87ei9hpqw6.fsf@ut.hh.sledj.net> References: <87tyiho54m.fsf@member.fsf.org> <8762uwdbh1.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87mxo7yrqn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjxyvjn9.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292520736 16062 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2010 17:32:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:32:16 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23489@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 16 18:32:11 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 1PTHgY-0006T2-7o for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:32:10 +0100 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 1PTHfx-0003pg-Q8; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:31:33 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PTHfw-0003pS-K9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:31:32 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTHfs-0005RH-Mc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:31:32 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTHfr-000537-VM for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:31:27 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTHfr-0005zo-Jg for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:31:27 +0100 Original-Received: from host81-149-164-25.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([81.149.164.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:31:27 +0100 Original-Received: from dme by host81-149-164-25.in-addr.btopenworld.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:31:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-149-164-25.in-addr.btopenworld.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8+L5kOegTlZjcWk4XD9BW5yOYww= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75134 Archived-At: * larsi@gnus.org [2010-12-16 Thu 16:22] > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> It's not that they need the topics at first, it's that showing even one >> topic will make them wonder what topics are and how to use them. From >> there they'll learn about topic parameters, and soon enough they'll be >> contributing to Gnus. So this is really a request for minions[1]. > > That's a good point. > > Let's do a poll: Should topics default (for first-time users) to on or > off? On. dme. -- David Edmondson, http://dme.org