Re: Gnus work

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

Eric writes:

> I suppose I see what you mean about the Gmail-specific stuff, but it
> doesn't take long to edit the manual! If Google really goes under, I
> think we'll see it coming :)

Yeah, but it usually takes a while for a release of GNU Emacs to be
replaced completely by a new version (including the updated volatile
information).

> But in principle, would you be okay with putting the tutorial in the
> manual, once you're happy with it?

I'd be happy if anyone can use it for something in whatever form, but I
don't think I will be finishing it, I kind of lost momentum after a
couple of months.

> In my case, anyway, this was before I was using IMAP -- I just had a
> pile of old email in one-file-per-message format, and I was trying to
> respool through mail-sources to an nnml backend, and had to keep
> compacting groups, and it was generally horrible.

Yeah, these days it's often simpler.

But also people use/want to use email in very different ways...

I have stopped suggesting to people how handle their email, because I've
discovered that what works for me doesn't work for most other people.
And then they get mad at me :-)


  Best regards,

    Adam

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