+@menu
+* [8.1]:: How to find information and help inside Emacs?
+* [8.2]:: I can't find anything in the Gnus manual about X
+ (e.g. attachments, PGP, MIME...), is it not documented?
+* [8.3]:: Which websites should I know?
+* [8.4]:: Which mailing lists and newsgroups are there?
+* [8.5]:: Where to report bugs?
+* [8.6]:: I need real-time help, where to find it?
+@end menu
+
+@ifnottex
+@node [8.1], [8.2], FAQ 8 - Getting help, FAQ 8 - Getting help
+@end ifnottex
+@subsubheading Question 8.1:
+
+ How to find information and help inside Emacs?
+
+
+Answer:
+
+ The first stop should be the Gnus manual (Say
+ @samp{C-h i d m Gnus RET} to start the
+ Gnus manual, then walk through the menus or do a
+ full-text search with @samp{s}). Then
+ there are the general Emacs help commands starting with
+ C-h, type @samp{C-h ? ?} to get a list
+ of all available help commands and their meaning. Finally
+ @samp{M-x apropos-command} lets you
+ search through all available functions and @samp{M-x
+ apropos} searches the bound variables.
+
+@ifnottex
+@node [8.2], [8.3], [8.1], FAQ 8 - Getting help
+@end ifnottex
+@subsubheading Question 8.2:
+
+ I can't find anything in the Gnus manual about X
+ (e.g. attachments, PGP, MIME...), is it not documented?
+
+
+Answer:
+
+ There's not only the Gnus manual but also the manuals
+ for message, emacs-mime, sieve and pgg. Those packages
+ are distributed with Gnus and used by Gnus but aren't
+ really part of core Gnus, so they are documented in
+ different info files, you should have a look in those
+ manuals, too.
+
+@ifnottex
+@node [8.3], [8.4], [8.2], FAQ 8 - Getting help
+@end ifnottex
+@subsubheading Question 8.3:
+
+ Which websites should I know?
+
+
+Answer:
+
+ The two most important ones are the
+ @uref{http://www.gnus.org,official Gnus website}.
+ and it's sister site
+ @uref{http://my.gnus.org,my.gnus.org (MGO)},
+ hosting an archive of lisp snippets, howtos, a (not
+ really finished) tutorial and this FAQ.
+
+
+ Tell me about other sites which are interesting.
+
+@ifnottex
+@node [8.4], [8.5], [8.3], FAQ 8 - Getting help
+@end ifnottex
+@subsubheading Question 8.4:
+
+ Which mailing lists and newsgroups are there?
+
+
+Answer:
+
+ There's the newsgroup gnu.emacs.gnus (pull it from
+ e.g. news.gnus.org) which deals with general questions
+ and the ding mailing list (ding@@gnus.org) dealing with
+ development of Gnus. You can read the ding list via
+ NNTP, too under the name gnus.ding from news.gnus.org.
+
+
+ If you want to stay in the big8,
+ news.software.newssreaders is also read by some Gnus
+ users (but chances for qualified help are much better in
+ the above groups) and if you speak German, there's
+ de.comm.software.gnus.
+
+@ifnottex
+@node [8.5], [8.6], [8.4], FAQ 8 - Getting help
+@end ifnottex
+@subsubheading Question 8.5:
+
+ Where to report bugs?
+
+
+Answer:
+
+Say @samp{M-x gnus-bug}, this will start a message to the
+@email{bugs@@gnus.org,gnus bug mailing list} including information
+about your environment which make it easier to help you.
+
+@ifnottex
+@node [8.6], , [8.5], FAQ 8 - Getting help
+@end ifnottex
+@subsubheading Question 8.6:
+
+ I need real-time help, where to find it?
+
+
+Answer:
+
+ Point your IRC client to irc.my.gnus.org channel
+ #mygnus. Don't be afraid if people there speak German,
+ they are willing and capable of switching to
+ English when people from outside Germany enter.
+
+
+@ifnottex
+@node FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus, FAQ - Glossary, FAQ 8 - Getting help, Frequently Asked Questions
+@end ifnottex
+@subsection Tuning Gnus
+
+@menu
+* [9.1]:: Starting Gnus is really slow, how to speed it up?
+* [9.2]:: How to speed up the process of entering a group?
+* [9.3]:: Sending mail becomes slower and slower, what's up?
+@end menu
+
+@ifnottex
+@node [9.1], [9.2], FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus, FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus
+@end ifnottex
+@subsubheading Question 9.1:
+
+ Starting Gnus is really slow, how to speed it up?
+
+
+Answer:
+
+ The reason for this could be the way Gnus reads it's
+ active file, see the node "The Active File" in the Gnus
+ manual for things you might try to speed the process up.
+ An other idea would be to byte compile your ~/.gnus (say
+ @samp{M-x byte-compile-file RET ~/.gnus
+ RET} to do it). Finally, if you have require
+ statements in your .gnus, you could replace them with
+ eval-after-load, which loads the stuff not at startup
+ time, but when it's needed. Say you've got this in your
+ ~/.gnus:
+
+
+@example
+(require 'message)
+(add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled))
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+ then as soon as you start Gnus, message.el is loaded. If
+ you replace it with
+
+
+@example
+(eval-after-load "message"
+ '(add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled)))
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+ it's loaded when it's needed.
+
+@ifnottex
+@node [9.2], [9.3], [9.1], FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus
+@end ifnottex
+@subsubheading Question 9.2:
+
+ How to speed up the process of entering a group?
+
+
+Answer:
+
+ A speed killer is setting the variable
+ gnus-fetch-old-headers to anything different from nil,
+ so don't do this if speed is an issue. To speed up
+ building of summary say
+
+
+@example
+(gnus-compile)
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+ at the bottom of your ~/.gnus, this will make gnus
+ byte-compile things like
+ gnus-summary-line-format.
+ then you could increase the value of gc-cons-threshold
+ by saying something like
+
+
+@example
+(setq gc-cons-threshold 3500000)
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+ in ~/.emacs. If you don't care about width of CJK
+ characters or use Gnus 5.10.0 or younger together with a
+ recent GNU Emacs, you should say
+
+
+@example
+(setq gnus-use-correct-string-widths nil)
+@end example
+
+
+@noindent
+ in ~/.gnus (thanks to Jesper harder for the last
+ two suggestions). Finally if you are still using 5.8.8
+ or 5.9 and experience speed problems with summary
+ buffer generation, you definitely should update to
+ 5.10.0 since there quite some work on improving it has
+ been done.
+
+@ifnottex
+@node [9.3], , [9.2], FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus
+@end ifnottex
+@subsubheading Question 9.3:
+
+ Sending mail becomes slower and slower, what's up?
+
+
+Answer:
+
+ The reason could be that you told Gnus to archive the
+ messages you wrote by setting
+ gnus-message-archive-group. Try to use a nnml group
+ instead of an archive group, this should bring you back
+ to normal speed.
+
+
+@ifnottex
+@node FAQ - Glossary, , FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus, Frequently Asked Questions
+@end ifnottex
+@subsection Glossary
+
+@table @dfn
+
+@item ~/.gnus
+ When the term ~/.gnus is used it just means your Gnus
+ configuration file. You might as well call it ~/.gnus.el or
+ specify another name.
+
+
+@item Back End
+ In Gnus terminology a back end is a virtual server, a layer
+ between core Gnus and the real NNTP-, POP3-, IMAP- or
+ whatever-server which offers Gnus a standardized interface
+ to functions like "get message", "get Headers" etc.
+
+
+@item Emacs
+ When the term Emacs is used in this FAQ, it means either GNU
+ Emacs or XEmacs.
+
+
+@item Message
+ In this FAQ message means a either a mail or a posting to a
+ Usenet Newsgroup or to some other fancy back end, no matter
+ of which kind it is.
+
+
+@item MUA
+ MUA is an acronym for Mail User Agent, it's the program you
+ use to read and write e-mails.
+
+
+@item NUA
+ NUA is an acronym for News User Agent, it's the program you
+ use to read and write Usenet news.
+
+@end table
+
+@c @bye