Re: obstreperousness. gnusers.

[Ian Soboroff <org@acm.isoboroff>]

Don Saklad <dsaklad@nestle.ai.mit.edu> writes:

> A number of people looking for encouragement have written that they
> don't want to use the newsgroup forum gnu.emacs.gnus

Huh?  I've been lurking and occasionally posting here for heaven knows
how long, and while trolls aren't tolerated, I don't think I've _ever_
seen anyone with a "How do I ..." question flamed.

(Excepting the long and perhaps honourable history of folks wanting to
have a different From header.  But that's actually a nice tendancy to
want to uphold RFC standards.)

I can't count the number of times I've seen Kai walk someone through
something in Gnus.  I actually ran into him at a conference this past
summer, and he was kind enough to answer a Gnus question there, too.

Now, there's a fair comment that many of these questions perhaps
shouldn't _have_ to be asked, they should already be set up for you.
So write your how-to or newbie FAQ or whatever and put it on the web.
That's what the web's for.  But for petes sake, spend your time there
rather than flaming folks here.

ian