From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1639 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Saklad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Automated gnus email setup for people already using gnus. Date: 19 Dec 2002 17:40:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668354 12153 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:28 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: nestle.ai.mit.edu Original-X-Trace: 1040337612 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 3940 18.43.0.45 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1779 Original-Lines: 23 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1779 Tue Jan 17 17:29:28 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1639 Archived-At: > Once you've got gnus, would there be a way of setting up gnus email with > something that automatically analyzes your set up on your system, goes > ahead and makes the dot file and you're ready with no other effort > usually?... > > Could this be developed for neophyte types?... > > It picks one configuration for you to begin using gnus email. > > It also offers for those who're not neophytes, those more in the know, > options to further optimize the beginner configuration. > > So, in gnus you run a command and it sets up or runs a check on a set > up for gnus email. Afterward, you're ready to go with no necessary > tweaking usually. Yes, this could be done. The difficulties with setting up Gnus are due to programmers' failure to grasp that a broken user interface is just an example of broken ordinary code. No competent programmer would code C or Basic or Lisp subroutines with such crazy lambda lists as the Gnus set-up procedure has. oo--ONR