dick writes: > I trust everyone here can acknowledge Gnus had long ago reached a > terminal state, and that new readers of the manual are more interested > in 1990s netspeak than actually using the software. As you readily > note, the manual is worthless for the latter's purpose. Gnusers > worldwide, all 12 of us, have long known this. +1, the manual is mostly useless for newbies. I learned mostly by experimenting (and often breaking Emacs) and other internet resources. > > I also trust everyone can see we're critiquing the equivalent of a five > year-old's clay ashtray as if it were a Confederate monument, which I > grant you is welcome respite from purposelessness and childlessness, but > nothing to build a head of steam about! Somehow, the Gnus manual seems to me less as a serious manual and more as a literature text. -- Akib Azmain Turja, GPG key: 70018CE5819F17A3BBA666AFE74F0EFA922AE7F5 Fediverse: akib@hostux.social Codeberg: akib emailselfdefense.fsf.org | "Nothing can be secure without encryption."