Re: For the complete novice how to get set up for mail in gnus

[Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org> writes:

> How might the complete novice figure out how to get set up to
> initiate mail in gnus knowing very little to nearly nothing or
> nothing about the usual preliminary steps to step one?...
>
> It needs to be a less wordy explanation in a better layout
> for those of us with symptoms of attention deficit disorder.
>
> The stuff at
> http://www.google.com/search?q=mail+gnus
> doesn't hit the mark of clearing up the
> many ambiguities about backends.
>
> How do you explain backends in a manner that the complete novice
> can go about identifying their predicament and figure out their
> respective next steps without the current struggle of the
> steep learning curve?...
>
> Some day in the future we'll have real computers and won't have
> to know this stuff.

Read this short tutorial:
http://my.gnus.org/tutorial/

-- 
Leon