From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52267 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The early gnus shars (was: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS) Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 17:27:41 -0400 Organization: FreeBSD/Linux Hippopotamus Preserve Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <1xze8ks2.fsf@asfast.com> References: <65orpvqy.fsf@asfast.com> <84n0i2etnm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <86bryiecs4.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <867k96ecch.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <65oq8l2f.fsf_-_@asfast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052083595 30282 80.91.224.249 (4 May 2003 21:26:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 21:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M810@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 04 23:26:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19CR0C-0007s8-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 23:26:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19CR1P-0001gK-00; Sun, 04 May 2003 16:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19CR1K-0001gF-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 May 2003 16:27:42 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 70809 invoked by alias); 4 May 2003 21:27:42 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 70804 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 21:27:42 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO asfast.net) (ew5stq@216.182.10.250) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 4 May 2003 21:27:42 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 0) by asfast.net with local; Sun, 04 May 2003 17:27:41 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "!ga1s|?LNLE3MeeeEYs(%LIl9q[xV9!j4#xf4!**BFW_ihlOb;:Slb>)vy>CJM (Lloyd Zusman's message of "Sun, 04 May 2003 17:21:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52267 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52267 Correcction: of course, that's 1988, not 2988 ... although I do feel like I've gone through a time warp. :) Lloyd Zusman writes: > I found version 2.0 of gnus, posted by Masanobu Umeda > (umerin@flab.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET) to comp.emacs on Feb. 1, 2988. This > looks like it might be the first public posting. The archives don't go > back much earlier that this, and so I don't know if there was a 1.x > version that was released earlier. > > This seems to confirm that my memory is incorrect and that Masanobu > Umeda is indeed the original author. > > But also, since I sent him an email, perhaps he will reply to personally > drive the final nail into the coffin of my claim. > > The entire gnus 2.0 release fit into two shars in two email messages. > This software is a fascinating piece of history, and so I'm wondering if > anyone would be interested in my posting it here. > > I've tarred and gzipped these files into a bundle that takes up a total > of 24,340 bytes. Is that too large for me to post here as an > attachment? If so, I'll put it on a web page somewhere. > > -- > Lloyd Zusman > ljz@asfast.com -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com