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Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...] |
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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.
- Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...], (continued)
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- Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...], Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/14
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- Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...], Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/14
- RE: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...], Drew Adams, 2013/08/14
- Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...], Rustom Mody, 2013/08/14
- Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...], Ken Goldman, 2013/08/16
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- Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...], Rustom Mody, 2013/08/17
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- Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...],
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Re: What's an even easier explanation how to setup gnus ..., W. Greenhouse, 2013/08/13
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