Re: What's a killed article ?

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:46:32 +0100 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> FM> It's sad to see that such notion [killed articles] are left
> FM> undefined until a late section (SCORING).
>
> To me it was obvious, but I had been using tin for many years when I
> tried Gnus, and in tin the names are similar IIRC.  Things like score
> files, threads, and article marks are often assumed to be basic
> knowledge in newsreader manuals.

So are you meaning that Gnus is for user that already had an
experience with another newsreader ?

> 
>
> I don't know if the Gnus manuals should remedy that or point to an
> external reference for these terms.

Yes definitely.

That said, it's not the only point where I find the documenation
obscure or not enough detailed: what's a very wide mail reply for
example. I can find ton of such example where you need to dig very
deeply the documentation to find such basic things, if the
documentation exists at all.

> You can look at the Emacs Wiki, and there have been a few articles
> written over the years you can find with Google.  I don't know of
> anything else.

Already tried unfortunately.

thanks

Francis