From: Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Proposed new introductory section to the Gnus manual
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:46:58 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADoYgq_safmkJAwRhOwtJZScLrGRhqRcbZK98Qc7qF6xp8=UeQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mug6klq3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
I think the writeup is quite good as is. Gnus is so different from
everything else it is a little hard to grasp at first, and the
underlying philosophy is important to understand.
Many, maybe most of us, have the advantage of 'remembering' Usenet and
how things worked with newsgroups. That really helps in understanding
the heritage and philosophy of Gnus. Today, with Usenet effectively
dead and even Gwene offline (does ANYONE use NNTP any longer?) it's
harder to grasp the group/article paradigm. So I think some verbosity
is in order. Gnus isn't Yahoo Mail (thank heaven) nor is it
Thunderbird. It's its own unique thing.
I really should have sent this from my AOL account :)
--
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i
Via Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-19 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-18 23:26 Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-19 0:34 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-08-19 1:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-19 2:46 ` Bob Newell [this message]
2019-08-19 7:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2019-08-20 4:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-20 11:37 ` dick
2019-09-09 8:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-09-09 11:52 ` dick
2019-09-09 18:39 ` Bob Newell
2019-09-09 19:48 ` dick
2019-09-10 2:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-09-10 20:21 ` dick
2019-09-10 23:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-09-12 19:19 ` Michael
2019-09-13 9:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-09-13 15:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2019-09-13 16:54 ` Michael
2019-09-16 2:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-09-13 18:24 ` Bob Newell
2019-09-13 18:39 ` Change input method or smtp server depending on addressee (was: Proposed new introductory section to the Gnus manual) Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2019-09-14 17:38 ` Change input method or smtp server depending on addressee Štěpán Němec
2019-09-16 18:26 ` Bob Newell
2019-09-16 8:52 ` Robert Pluim
2019-12-20 12:54 ` 황병희
2019-09-16 2:55 ` Proposed new introductory section to the Gnus manual Eric Abrahamsen
2019-09-16 18:34 ` Bob Newell
2019-09-10 20:39 ` Adam Sjøgren
2019-09-10 20:54 ` dick
2019-09-12 5:31 ` Steinar Bang
2019-09-07 19:50 ` Adam Sjøgren
2019-09-08 17:00 ` Bob Newell
2019-08-19 16:01 ` Adam Sjøgren
2019-08-19 18:04 ` Bob Newell
2019-08-19 18:09 ` Adam Sjøgren
2019-08-20 4:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-09-07 19:44 ` Adam Sjøgren
2019-08-19 16:16 ` Eric S Fraga
2019-08-20 7:08 ` Bjørn Mork
2019-08-20 9:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2019-08-20 10:32 ` Bjørn Mork
2019-08-20 10:55 ` Eric S Fraga
2019-08-19 17:55 ` Adam Sjøgren
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