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bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
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Akib Azmain Turja |
Subject: |
bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Feb 2023 21:35:10 +0600 |
dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com> writes:
> I trust everyone here can acknowledge Gnus had long ago reached a
> terminal state, and that new readers of the manual are more interested
> in 1990s netspeak than actually using the software. As you readily
> note, the manual is worthless for the latter's purpose. Gnusers
> worldwide, all 12 of us, have long known this.
+1, the manual is mostly useless for newbies. I learned mostly by
experimenting (and often breaking Emacs) and other internet resources.
>
> I also trust everyone can see we're critiquing the equivalent of a five
> year-old's clay ashtray as if it were a Confederate monument, which I
> grant you is welcome respite from purposelessness and childlessness, but
> nothing to build a head of steam about!
Somehow, the Gnus manual seems to me less as a serious manual and more
as a literature text.
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