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Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...]
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:11:51 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 03:01:03 UTC+8, Drew Adams  wrote:

> Hm.  I hear you, and though not very familiar with Gnus I can
> sympathize to some extent with this point of view.
> 
> But I think that the goal should be something that (I think) Emacs
> achieves pretty well: it is configurable as hell, and it can be as
> complex as you like, but it ALSO lets uninformed users pick it up
> and start using it right away, out of the box.

Gnus used to be like this, as a Usenet reader.  But most organizations and ISPs 
no longer have a server with an alias of "news" that runs an nntp service, so 
it no longer works out of the box for most people.


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