From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59455 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Trey Sizemore Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Ten year anniversary Date: 19 Dec 2004 20:17:52 -0500 Message-ID: <86vfaxhinz.fsf@salamander.thesizemores.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103505673 11815 80.91.229.6 (20 Dec 2004 01:21:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 01:21:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7995@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 20 02:21:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CgCEU-0006bD-00 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:21:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CgCAY-0002z6-00; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:17:02 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CgCAQ-0002yy-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:16:54 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CgCAL-0003xf-7N for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:16:49 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CgCAJ-00010Z-00 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:16:47 +0100 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CgCAJ-00037z-00 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:16:47 +0100 Original-Received: from h131.74.40.69.ip.alltel.net ([69.40.74.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:16:47 +0100 Original-Received: from trey by h131.74.40.69.ip.alltel.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:16:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h131.74.40.69.ip.alltel.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59455 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:59455 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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: > > > > So that's been and gone, but the ChangeLog says that the first > releases were: > > -------- > Mon Dec 12 18:15:03 1994 Lars Ingebrigtsen > > * gnus.el: Version 0.2 released after some initial bugs were > fixed. > > Sun Dec 11 06:32:40 1994 Lars Ingebrigtsen > > * 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: > > > > 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.