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

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, timmcn@bitstream.net wrote:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>> This is exactly what the Gnus assistants are supposed to do - anyone
>> interested in helping new users is more than welcome to contribute.
> 
> Well, what I was thinking was just a basic commented .gnus file
> similar to what one finds in, say, the Apache httpd.conf file.  Just
> enough stuff to let users get their e-mail and respond to it, read
> newsgroups, have a sig, etc.  The bare minimum to get Gnus's basics to
> work.

This is exactly what the Gnus assistants are supposed to do (generate
that basic file), except there are no comments and no Lisp to read -
just a guided setup, wizard-style.

If you think throwing commented Lisp at the users is better, you
haven't met many users :)

Ted