Re: Gnus work

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> 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).

That's a good point.

>> 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.

Okay, no worries -- if I get around to stealing anything from it, I'll
check with you first.

>> 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 :-)

I also have no interest in being prescriptive! But helping people with
the very first steps seems relatively low-risk.

Eric