Re: Manual examples

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) writes:

> The section on reading mail is hard to find, it should be moved up possibly
> all the way to  the top of the hierarchy. 

I've now moved the "Foreign Groups" node up from "The Group Buffer"
node and renamed it "Select Methods".  This is the menu:

* The Server Buffer::     Making and editing virtual servers.
* Getting News::          Reading USENET news with Gnus.
* Getting Mail::          Reading your personal mail with Gnus.
* Other Sources::         Reading directories, files, SOUP packets.
* Combined Groups::       Combining groups into one group.

So the mail stuff should be a bit easier to find.

> The think I get confused about reading the manual is the difference between
> group parametes, things in the group method, and what should be a local
> element in the score file.  
> 
> for example:
> > If you put `total-expire' in the group parameters
> but:
> > Another way to have auto-expiry happen is to have the element
> > `auto-expire' in the select method of the group.

Oh, that's a thinko.  It should be group parameters both places.  Fix
in 0.39.

> Also, the section on servers refers to ``virtual server settings'', I still
> don't know what those are.  Are they just variables we should set globally or
> in score file? should they be elements in the select method?  are they group
> parameters? 

They are elements in the select method, basically.  I've now added
some more entries to the "Terminology" node to cover this.

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