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Organization: What did you have in mind?  A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:
> I always assumed the first setup page would look like
>
> | Do you want to setup Gnus for
> |
> | ( ) Mail
> | (*) News
> | ( ) Both

That would work, or maybe have a "News" step and a "Mail" step, and
give each of them a "skip" option.  Or make them separate assistants.
It would be nice if the assistants could add a new server/select
method even after some were already defined, so the user wouldn't have
to get through everything all at once.


paul