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The top of the gnus info tree should have an article: What if I don't
want to ever read 'news' and only want to read 'mail' and all my mail
currently is in /var/spool/mail/$USER? How should I then set up gnus?

You may think that "1.3 The Server is Down" is good enough, but I say
you have surely lost the user by then.

Indeed
$ mutt
would be much faster than trying to read the gnus documentation.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ rating for gnus surely is 0.

And how would one translate
$ mutt -f file
into gnus language?  Surely one need a post-doc degree to find out.

Why don't you have a info page saying how to do
$ mail
$ mail -f file
$ mutt
$ mutt -f file
but in the gnus language or even from, gasp,
$ emacs -f gnus 'what goes here?' #the command line.
Or maybe it is impossible.

And regarding your
"Address: "
prompt, after guessing your B command might be usable.
Well who could ever figure out how to tell it the name of a local
file. The user is just left poking in the dark as usual.