Addition from 5.10.6 tar ball.

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+2006-04-04  Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
+
+       * README: Addition from 5.10.6 tar ball.
+
 2006-03-31  Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
 
        * GNUS-NEWS: Generated.

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+This package contains a beta version of Gnus (beta because the final version
+is the one included in Emacs). The lisp directory contains the source lisp
+files, and the texi directory contains a draft of the Gnus info pages.
+
+To use Gnus you first have to unpack the files, which you've obviously
+done, because you are reading this.
+
+You should definitely byte-compile the source files. To do that, you
+can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory.
+
+Do not say "make install".  I repeat, do *NOT* say "make install".  If
+you say "make install" and then complain about things not working,
+I'll be very annoyed.  If you say "make install" and things happen to
+work, that's all fine and dandy for you, but it's quite likely that it
+won't.
+
+If you are using XEmacs, you *must* say "./configure && make EMACS=xemacs".
+
+Then you have to tell Emacs where Gnus is. You might put something
+like
+
+   (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/gnus-5.10/lisp") load-path))
+   (require 'gnus-load)
+
+in your .emacs file, or wherever you keep such things.  
+
+To enable reading the Gnus manual, you could say something like:
+
+  (require 'info)
+  (if (featurep 'xemacs)
+      (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/gnus-5.10/texi/")
+    (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/gnus-5.10/texi/"))
+
+Gnus 5.10 does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 20.7 or
+XEmacs 21.1.
+
+To compile the Gnus manual, you either need a pretty new Emacs, or a
+pretty new version of the texinfo tools.
+
+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
+backtraces, or, better yet, find out why Gnus does something wrong,
+fix it, and send me the diffs. :-)
+
+There are four main things I want your help and input on:
+
+1) Startup. Does everything go smoothly, and why not?
+
+2) Any errors while you read news normally?
+
+3) Any errors if you do anything abnormal?
+
+4) Features you do not like, or do like, but would like to tweak a
+   bit, and features you would like to see.
+
+Send any comments and all your bug fixes/complaints to
+`bugs@gnus.org'.