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Two points:

- There are many mail readers imlementing the traditional mail reading
model for reading mail.  Some of them, like VM, are very good.  Gnus
is to my knowledge the only mail reader which directly supports the
news reading model for reading mail.  I think it would be wrong to
change the unique Gnus to be just another good mail reader.

- For real beginners in mail reading (if there are any of them left)
there are no reason why they shouldn't learn the news reading model
for reading mail first.  I don't think the traditional mail reading
model is inherently any more intuitive than the news reading model, it
is just more familiar to people who have used other mail readers.

A "Beginners Guide for Reading Mail with Gnus" might be a good
addition to the manual.  The guide shouldn't describe all the options,
but only how to read mail the Gnus way.