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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 61325@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 11:24:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qn1afay.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wn4u6xj0.fsf@yahoo.com>

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

>> 3.15 Exiting Gnus has
>>
>> ...
>> 3.16 Group Topics
>> ...
>
> I think this joke is fairly obvious for anyone who has tried to browse a
> public news server.

May you please elaborate which joke you are referring to?

>> Also, I fail to understand what "kill files" really refers to here. Also
>> some USA-specific context? Or is it Emacs killing concept? Deleting
>> files on file system?
>
> Gnus is a news reader.  Naturally, the indended audience of the jokes in
> its manual are those who read net news.  Since you don't know what a
> kill or a (Gnus-specific) score file is, you can disregard that
> paragraph.

Agree. My other points remain. In particular, about joking on sex topic,
which is present in the same paragraph.

> The internet is for adults, not silly folk who cry about everything they
> don't understand.

I do not mind not understanding. But I do prefer to have manuals written
in such a way that I can at least distinguish jokes from the technical
information I actually need to use GNUS. I admit that the paragraph
about "kill files" is clearly distinguishable as a joke. Not so much for
3.16 Group Topics where jokes and non-jokes are rather mixed.

Also, note that Gnus is also email client. Are people who intend to use
GNUS for email supposed to understand Newsgroup terminology in order to
use GNUS?

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-07 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 136+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-06 16:01 bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-06 16:20 ` dick
2023-02-12  6:11   ` Jean Louis
2023-02-06 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-06 16:38   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-06 16:42     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-06 16:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-06 17:04       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-18 13:59   ` Petteri Hintsanen
2023-02-19 10:43     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-20  5:18     ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-06 17:23 ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-02-06 17:49   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-06 18:37     ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-02-06 18:45       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-07  2:04 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-07 11:24   ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-02-07 12:36     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-07 13:01       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-07 14:03         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-07 14:43           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-07 15:10             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-07 16:15               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-08  1:28                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-08 11:40                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-08 11:41                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-08 11:59                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-08 12:50                         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-15 14:55                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-16  1:29                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-17 12:25                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-18  4:19                             ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-18 11:14                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-20  5:19                                 ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-22 13:43                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-25  4:09                                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-08 12:36                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12  6:38                 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-09  4:28           ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-07 19:45         ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-02-07 19:56           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-09  4:28         ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-07 14:15       ` dick
2023-02-07 15:09         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-07 15:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-08  8:11             ` Michael Albinus
2023-02-08 12:31               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-08 12:59                 ` Michael Albinus
2023-02-07 15:41       ` Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-09  4:28         ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-09 16:44           ` Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-12  4:03             ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-08  4:31   ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-08  4:46     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-12  6:46       ` Jean Louis
2023-02-15 14:47       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-16  1:27         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-17 12:38           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-17  5:22         ` Jean Louis
2023-02-19  4:50           ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-19  5:04             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-22  4:33               ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-22  6:02                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-26  2:59                   ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-08 13:06     ` dick
2023-02-08 15:35       ` Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-08 16:06         ` dick
2023-02-15 14:37     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-16  1:34       ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-17 12:49         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-19  4:50           ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-19 10:36             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-19 11:01               ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-19 11:13                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-20 11:50                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-20 12:34                   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-07 13:29                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-07 20:02                       ` No Wayman
2023-03-07 20:12                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-19 12:24               ` Stefan Kangas
2023-02-19 13:05                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-19 13:45                   ` Stefan Kangas
2023-02-20 18:29                   ` Gregory Heytings
2023-02-21  2:30                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-22  4:34                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-22  4:35                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-07 13:48                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-08  0:22                         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-08 14:05                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-09  1:14                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-10  4:25                               ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-10  7:03                                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-09  4:28                           ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-08  5:34                         ` Jean Louis
2023-03-08 14:13                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-09  1:21                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-13 14:50                             ` Jean Louis
2023-03-09  4:26                         ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-10 11:33                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-10 11:34                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-03-10 12:06                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-10 12:37                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-10 12:41                                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-13 15:01                               ` Jean Louis
2023-02-19 15:56                 ` Drew Adams
2023-02-20 12:00                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-20 12:37                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-20 14:28                     ` Michael Albinus
2023-02-20 14:34                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-20 17:01                     ` Drew Adams
2023-02-20 11:55                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-27  3:26               ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-19  5:07           ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-18  4:19       ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-19 10:25         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-15 15:34     ` Stefan Kangas
2023-02-15 16:00       ` Robert Pluim
2023-02-18  4:19         ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-17  5:24       ` Jean Louis
2023-02-19  4:50         ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-08 13:42 ` Visuwesh
2023-02-12  6:56   ` Jean Louis
2023-02-12  6:32 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-14  4:51   ` Richard Stallman
2023-02-14 11:17     ` Jean Louis
2023-03-09  4:05 ` Sam James
2023-03-09 14:10   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-09 14:17     ` Robert Pluim
2023-03-09 16:57       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-03-09 17:06         ` Robert Pluim
2023-03-09 20:10       ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2023-03-10 10:53   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-03-13 15:05     ` Jean Louis
2023-09-06  6:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-06  7:10   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-06  7:30     ` Stefan Kangas

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