From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Peterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: For users not programmers with very little, maybe a smattering of experience, how do you setup gnus for reading email?... Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:49:13 -0800 Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <87lk5np312.fsf@nospam.please.ucdavis.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203032444 8958 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2008 23:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 15 00:41:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JPnhS-0005bl-3e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPngy-0005Dm-9J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!ucdavis!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-114-40-74.hsd1.ca.comcast.net Original-X-Trace: skeeter.ucdavis.edu 1203029301 7800 76.114.40.74 (14 Feb 2008 22:48:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ucdavis.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:48:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZH8acNOe0zpwgEIMMmx/uYHQdX8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156157 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51531 Archived-At: Don Saklad on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:58:37 -0500 didst step forth and proclaim thus: > For users not programmers with very little, maybe a smattering of > experience, how do you setup gnus for reading email?... on > fencepost.gnu.org Gnus is one of those Emacs applications that requires extensive juggling of elisp. It's awesome, I use it, but if you really want its benefits, you're forced to deal with its complexity. The best suggestion is to work with somebody else's ~/.gnus and work with that until it turns into something that you find usable. -- Sam Peterson skpeterson At nospam ucdavis.edu "if programmers were paid to remove code instead of adding it, software would be much better" -- unknown