in your Emacs, you should probably exit that Emacs and start a new one
to fire up Gnus.
-Gnus does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 19.33 or
-XEmacs 19.14. So you definitely need a new Emacs.
+Gnus does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 20.3 or
+XEmacs 20.0. So you definitely need a new Emacs.
Then you do a `M-x gnus', and everything should... uhm... it should
work, but it might not. Set `debug-on-error' to t, and mail me the