From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11764 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: What's a killed article ? Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:17:07 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87ocz3wbjw.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <878wqx82hp.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87prk74tx9.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <86ej0mldi7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <864p1ek6up.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877i6a7da1.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87k5a03l8e.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230025234 5056 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2008 09:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:40:34 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 23 10:41:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LF3lj-0008Jo-Dt for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:41:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LF3kW-0004yx-Ka for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:40:24 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yKJJcbulVyg1lKyjqt3dbIyR2dY= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.49.155.172 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=Jjb3ZBHXDFLLCYW^HlPiL@YSB=nbEKnkKjL0kO3l6odNL^MjGbH?lJH1TkjLd6kaM>m@T>AAbnOR8YO<; F Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:82023 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:11764 Archived-At: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:00:52 +0100, harven wrote: > From the top of my head, some terms, either ambiguous or defined too > late in the manual > > - MAIL BACK END (info "(gnus)Comparing mail back ends") > - IDLE (info "(gnus)Daemons") > - GNUS-SECONDARY-SELECT-METHODS Thank you. This is a good list of Gnus terms that may sound confusing for new Gnus users. > There are a number of step-by-step introductory guides around and all > of them feel necessary to give a few definitions, which are not so > well explained in the Gnus manual. So, it should not be difficult to > expand the list. BTW I think it would be better to improve the > GnusTutorial on emacswiki instead of modifying the Gnus manual. This is a good idea too. I will look at the tutorial on the wiki and see how it builds a basic body of Gnus knowledge. My gut feeling is that the Gnus manual has *everything* but it is written more like a reference and not really as a tutorial. Maybe it would be worth writing an accompanying manual, i.e. something called `gnus-tutorial.info', that we can point new users to :-)