🚀 go-pugleaf

Okay, I've got GNUS up and running in the pawl.rpi.edu network here
and there are just a couple of quick notes:
 
a) it was up and running without many hassles at all.  That's one
thing I love about GNU. :-)

b) well, actually, it wasn't no hassles ... tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
probably saw me take it all of five or maybe six times; originally,
the filename wasn't obviously a tar file, but Bob fixed that after I
whined to him about my troubles. (Thanks, Bob)
 
c) I tried C-d (gnus-Subject-rmail-digest) on Risks, hoping to watch
some magic bursting, but it came back and said that the article was
not a digest.  It is obviously expecting a different format or
somethin but I've not taken yet taken the time to look it up.  Before
I do, can anyone offer a few words of wisdom about how come PGN's
Risks Digest isn't a digest?
 
d) In order to prevent the least amount of headaches for people that I
am ever-trying to convert to GNU Emacs, I will be writing a couple of
elisp functions to automagically convert rn's KILL files to GNUS KILL
files, to switch down the ~/News directory paths and bring everything
back up in a non-hierarchal manner, and to save them the big surprise
that I got the first time I ran GNUS.
 
The surprise I got was that all of the groups which were not in my
.newsrc came flooding in, inserted at the beginning, with lots of
articles to read.  Now, the reason that 80% of them weren't there was
because I didn't want them cluttering my file.  The other 20% I had
never head of and would have appreciated a half a second mor to peruse
and decide whether I wanted them.  I found out about the options line
supported by Bnews and GNUS, but the example it gave was sort of
limited.  I'll see what I can conjure up from it (like whether
!comp.lang will allow all the comp.land groups to be missing) but I'd
appreciate a summary of syntax if anyoen can provide it.
 
I have to go diving into the code right now hoping that there is some
hook provided around this autosubscription function, or that it is
just a function in itself so I can easily rewrite it, that requires
your approval before subscribing you, puts it in your option line if
necessary, blah blah, etcetera.
 
This is all part of a somewhat local one-man effort to educate users
on the merits of the FSF and the shortcomings of vi.  The way some
people whine about things around here if all of a sudden something
different and unexpected happens, I like to make it as user-friendly
as possible (another Not Unix kind of thing ... :-).   If anyone has
any utilities that already do something like this, please let me know
soon.  If not, I'll post mine in less than a week.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Dave
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