Re: Ten year anniversary

[Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hey.  Remember me?
> 
> Anyway, Romain Francoise reminded me that it was ten years ago that I
> started rewriting Gnus.  (I thought that was next year.)  But
> Googling revealed this:
> 
> <URL: http://www.google.no/groups?q=g:thl1996829865d&dq=&hl=no&lr=&selm=385ckd%24js5%40hadd.ifi.uio.no>
> 
> So that's been and gone, but the ChangeLog says that the first
> releases were:
> 
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> Mon Dec 12 18:15:03 1994  Lars Ingebrigtsen  <lars@eyesore.no>
> 
> 	* gnus.el: Version 0.2 released after some initial bugs were
> 	fixed. 
> 
> Sun Dec 11 06:32:40 1994  Lars Ingebrigtsen  <lars@eyesore.no>
> 
> 	* gnus.el: The very first (ding) Gnus pre-release. 
> --------
> 
> Pretty typical.  :-)
> 
> So it's six days until the biiig anniversary.  Which is, true to
> form, too late to create something marvelous, but I could try to whip
> up some t-shirts in time for X-mas.  Long-sleeved ones, since it's
> winter and all.  (In some parts of the world)
> 
> Taking a cue from the final sentence in the message referred to
> above, I just put this together as a stab towards a design:
> 
> <URL: http://ingebrigtsen.no/dingten.php>
> 
> Any interest?  I'm not even sure whether it's possible to get this
> together in such a short time, and it's doubtful that the postal
> service will be able to get them out in time for, er, whatever, but
> isn't that just what Gnus development is about?  :-)
>  
> -- 
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Yes, count me in as well.