From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4140 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to set up gnus email for novices with little mastery. Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:47:37 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <4n8yataxgm.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670122 22017 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:15:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:18 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de QEJxFRNLXa1g2528UvMqnwOJzRo+8r2KrKOlMEyK2rJkUs+WUf X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HcC4CiD5hMTnpIj7z7EeJWH75oE= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4281 Original-Lines: 18 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4281 Tue Jan 17 17:33:18 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4140 Archived-At: On 29 Sep 2004, dsaklad@nestle.csail.mit.edu wrote: > How do you figure out backend neither having any experience in > thinking about it nor even knowing the significance of backend ?... > > Backend appears too complicated a thing for many people with no > mastery or it would require dedicated study, too steep a learning > curve of more than a mere few moments. Backends are explained in the Gnus manual. Reading the manual is a requirement for using Gnus, you can't just expect it to "work" (there are other news readers that do that). Gnus will have setup assistants one day. It doesn't now, so setup is a manual chore. If you or anyone else would like to work on the setup assistants, that would help - they are at the embryo stage now. Ted