From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73357 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: assistants, again Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:12:48 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ocaolwy7.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8762wys1q8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bp6qowqa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zkuanh10.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <8762wxcb8q.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287588022 5946 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 15:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:20:22 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21728@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 20 17:20:19 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 1P8aSg-0007yY-39 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:20:18 +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 1P8aSZ-0005T1-QN; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:20:11 -0500 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 1P8aSY-0005Sl-8X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P8aSX-0007KA-AE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P8aSV-0005WF-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:20:07 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8aSS-0007uj-4E for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:20:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:20:04 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:20:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 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:K+ORumLgEfT0+9LlFQ7ThjMHttU= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73357 Archived-At: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:14:13 -0500 Ted Zlatanov wrote: TZ> 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) TZ> - also set gnus-blocked-images to something other than "." because the TZ> default is really annoying (but the user needs to approve in case they TZ> are paranoid) - also set the HTML renderer to mm-shr or something else (yes, this is turning into a TODO list, feel free to add other things) Ted