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Didier Verna <verna@inf.enst.fr> writes:
> Actually, the current manual is more like a reference manual with parts of

Lars has made this observation a number of times, probably because
documentation about Gnus goes into it directly as a function of code
development, not as an analysis of what a user needs to do.  A genuine
users' manual, reflecting thought on how to get along with Gnus in a
general sense, would surely be a great improvement.