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

[Ted Zlatanov]

On 29 Sep 2004, dsaklad@nestle.csail.mit.edu wrote:

> How do you figure out backend neither having any experience in
> thinking about it nor even knowing the significance of backend ?...
> 
> Backend appears too complicated a thing for many people with no
> mastery or it would require dedicated study, too steep a learning
> curve of more than a mere few moments.

Backends are explained in the Gnus manual.  Reading the manual is a
requirement for using Gnus, you can't just expect it to "work" (there
are other news readers that do that).

Gnus will have setup assistants one day.  It doesn't now, so setup is
a manual chore.  If you or anyone else would like to work on the setup
assistants, that would help - they are at the embryo stage now.

Ted