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

[David Z Maze]

Don Saklad <dsaklad@nestle.csail.mit.edu> writes:

> An even easier approach is needed that novices with no mastery of
> computer technology, no mastery of software would do no more than
> invoke their interest in running gnus email.

There are better mailers for that sort of person.  I'd probably
recommend Mozilla Thunderbird these days, but there's Eudora, Apple's
mail.app, Outlook, Evolution, ...

Gnus is a powerful, and hence complicated, mail/news system.  It
regains a little straightforwardness by being written/customizable in
elisp, which a new Gnus user might be familiar with already by having
tweaked their Emacs.  I don't think it's intended to be a system for
people with no computer skills, and I don't think the project should
substantially move this way.

(The next two questions then are "it's ugly!" and "it's so slow!", and
I think we're not rewriting Emacs to fix those.  :-)

  --dzm