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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I'll just include it here; please do suggest changes that will make
> things clearer, since this is a quite important subject.

It's clear to me, but I would expect it to be clear to most people on
this list. What is needed here is some testing on unsuspecting users
who don't read mail with Gnus. Perhaps posting it in gnu.emacs.gnus
might get you some more useful feeedback.

>    Gnus, by default, handles all its group using the same approach.
                                            s
> This approach is very newsreaderly--you enter a group, see the
> new/unread messages, and when you read the messages, they get marked as
> read, and you don't see them any more.  (Unless you explicitly ask for
> them.)

>    I don't mean to scare anybody off, but I want to make it clear that
> you may be required to learn a new way of thinking about messages.
> After you've been subjected to The Gnus Way, you will come to love it.

If you won't trademark The Gnus Way(tm), I think I will.

Hans