Re: comments on pgnus-v0.80

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

lconrad@world.std.com writes:

> For instance, I make my living being able to figure out software from
> reading the documentation, and I still can't get the gnus agent to
> work.  (This is one of the features gnus allegedly has that
> netscape users might want.)  A couple of sentences that I think need
> some amplification:
> 
>    * First, set up Gnus as you would do if you were running it on a
>      machine that has full connection to the net.  
> 
> What does this mean?  What needs to work when I'm connected to the
> net, before I add the (gnus-agentize) line?

Well, the reason for this nebulous phrasing is that what you have to
do depends so much on what you want to do.  What I'm trying to say is
that you should have Gnus working as you want, and after that, then
you can start thinking about using the Agent.

>      The main way to control what is to be downloaded is to create a
>      "category" and then assign some (or all) groups to this category.
> 
> It might be more useful to the new user to explain what the default
> category does and why, and then explain how and why to create one that 
> does something different.

That's handled in the "The Category Buffer" node, isn't it?

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