From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22481 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: comments on pgnus-v0.80 Date: 17 Apr 1999 09:34:44 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160392 29507 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:33:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA24913 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:43:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB10810; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:38:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:39:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA02820 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:38:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (larsi@ppp063.uio.no [129.240.240.68]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA24807 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:38:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA13812; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:38:00 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Michael Shermer's _Why People Believe Weird Things_ X-Now-Playing: Stereolab's _Switched On_: "Contact" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: lconrad@world.std.com's message of "10 Apr 1999 07:19:11 -0400" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070082 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.82) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen