1. Starting Gnus

If you haven’t used Emacs much before using Gnus, read Emacs for Heathens first.

If your system administrator has set things up properly, starting Gnus and reading news is extremely easy—you just type M-x gnus in your Emacs. If not, you should customize the variable gnus-select-method as described in Finding the News. For a minimal setup for posting should also customize the variables user-full-name and user-mail-address.

If you want to start Gnus in a different frame, you can use the command M-x gnus-other-frame instead.

If things do not go smoothly at startup, you have to twiddle some variables in your ‘~/.gnus.el’ file. This file is similar to ‘~/.emacs’, but is read when Gnus starts.

If you puzzle at any terms used in this manual, please refer to the terminology section (see section Terminology).

1.1 Finding the News		Choosing a method for getting news.
1.2 The Server is Down		How can I read my mail then?
1.3 Slave Gnusae		You can have more than one Gnus active at a time.
1.4 New Groups		What is Gnus supposed to do with new groups?
1.5 Changing Servers		You may want to move from one server to another.
1.6 Startup Files		Those pesky startup files—‘`.newsrc`’.
1.7 Auto Save		Recovering from a crash.
1.8 The Active File		Reading the active file over a slow line Takes Time.
1.9 Startup Variables		Other variables you might change.

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