From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52219 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 15:19:25 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <84n0i2etnm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <65orpvqy.fsf@asfast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052054492 3469 80.91.224.249 (4 May 2003 13:21:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 13:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M762@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 04 15:21:31 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 19CJQp-0000tp-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 15:21:31 +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 19CJRU-0005Pj-00; Sun, 04 May 2003 08:22:12 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19CJRM-0005OB-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 May 2003 08:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 52053 invoked by alias); 4 May 2003 13:22:04 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 52048 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 13:22:03 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 4 May 2003 13:22:03 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19CJSa-0003uL-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 15:23:20 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5087707f.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1052054600 15021 80.135.112.127 (4 May 2003 13:23:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 May 2003 13:23:20 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wz4J2w8eN1LtTOfA+ACz8zYkjMU= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52219 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52219 Lloyd Zusman writes: > In English, the word "gnu" (meaning "wildebeest") can be pronounced with > a silent "g", so that it sounds exactly the same as "new". Therefore, > using that convention, "Gnus" would be pronounced like "news". Since > Gnus was originally created as a usenet newsreader, that's a very > appropriate name. I understand that the G is not silent, says Lars. -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)