How to set up gnus email for novices with little mastery.

[Don Saklad]

A relative novice using emacs rmail does not have enough mastery to
set up the dotfile for gnus email nor to do whatever other
accompanying tasks to get gnus email up and running. What hints, tips
and pointers are there for such users interested in trying gnus email
that do not require more than a few moments of study through a steep
that learning curve so perceived ?...

The existing instructive informational links and newsgroups do assume
a relatively advanced or intermediate level of user.