From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/158 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus email. -For dummies type information. Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:23:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667243 5840 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:27:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:27:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:10 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1017253926 906 217.13.230.178 (27 Mar 2002 18:32:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Mar 2002 18:32:06 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:i5/XhRUHouX/tV5QeNhjOgXLdUg= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:298 Original-Lines: 14 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 298 Tue Jan 17 17:27:10 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:158 Archived-At: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> But providing a sample .gnus is perhaps a good idea altough quite >> un-emacsishy in style. > > Yes, I now found another reason against a sample file: people who do > simple customizations can just do M-x customize RET. The gnus manual rarely mentions doing things with customize, so for the time being it seems as if people who use custom are die-hard custom users. The sample could include a comment saying that she should really use custom instead.