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30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual

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From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
To: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>, 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 21:35:10 +0600

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dick <dick.r.chiang <at> 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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