From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11694 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: What's a killed article ? Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:21:06 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <878wqx82hp.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87prk74tx9.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <86ej0mldi7.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228513241 24332 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2008 21:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 21:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 22:41:37 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 1L8iQP-0006p0-RW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:41:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8iPF-0004n9-7B for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:40:13 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.buerger.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: V3qyHNRaZ4LsIBGa8YngNw.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 21:21:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:X6e6pTHnk7+RToTI9fMyj69B7OE= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:81949 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:11694 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:46:32 +0100 Francis Moreau 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