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From: Dennis Askey <mrascii@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: adive to a gnus newbie
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:11:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yre9ppi7po3r.fsf@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.16670.1394204722.10748.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>

jenenliu <jenenliu@gmail.com> writes:

> The gnus document is complicated to me, maybe it is because I am new to
> gnus.
> Now I have the basic setting myself, and read some tutorials.
> I am trying to read and understand gnus documents.
> It can be painful if you don't know what others talk about gnus for
> beginners.
> Thanks for reply.

I had trouble understanding gnus for the longest time until I simply sat
down and read the help group that gnus automatically shows when you first
start it and then read section 6.3 Getting Mail in the gnus manual.  I
used those sources to create a barebones ~/.gnus.el.

DNA
AKA mrascii
-- 
27 Years 1987-2014
SDF Free Public Access UNIX System
http://www.sdf.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-17 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-06  8:05 jenenliu
2014-03-07 12:55 ` Martin
2014-03-07 14:42   ` jenenliu
     [not found]   ` <mailman.16670.1394204722.10748.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-06-17 15:11     ` Dennis Askey [this message]
2014-06-19  2:43       ` Emanuel Berg

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