My suggestion is to become part of the solution.  If the manual leaves a lot to
be desired, if there are errors, etc. help rewrite it, correct the problem, etc.
I believe Elm is FREE.  If one (or more) programmer(s) wrote the program for the
computing community, maybe one (or more) user(s) could help/improve the
documentation for the user community?
 
Richard
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In message <[log in to unmask]> ListServ list owners writes:
> One of the very helpful folks who privately emailed me solutions to my
> disabillity happened to hit the nail on the head: the suggestion was made
> to use the 'h' command in elm to reveal the hidden headers.
>
> Now, in the novice (starter-default) menu for elm, there is no hint that
> such a command exists.  The headers one does see take up half a screen,
> and how shall the unwary know there's more?  Further, the 'h' command when
> struck once, simply flashes the successive headers, about
> half-a-secondeach, on the first line of the screen before laying out the
> stable message.  It's only on the third or fourth frustrated smack that
> everything goes as it should: an lo and behold, there's the 'From' line
> with an address that I can write down and then enter manually to send
> private mail.
>
> Elm is a widely-used mailsystem.  The information I would have needed
> doesn't appear in the manuals I've been given (on two systems now).  The
> computer experts at the info lines didn't have a clue.  PLEASE, all you
> wizards, try to remember how it was before you knew all that good stuff?
>
> I, too, have an esoteric field of my own: to me, the computer network is a
> lovely toy and useful tool.  I'm trying hard to learn what I need to.
>
> Thanks, especially to all those who sent helpful and gentle suggestions.
>
> --bayla