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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:
>
>>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Lars> Oh!  I've always thought that Masanobu Umeda was the original
> Lars> author.  Who was it?
>
> Lars> (Gee.  You'd have thought somebody would have mentioned this before
> Lars> now!  :-)
>
> Randal> Isn't it in the manual or the changelog? :)
>
> It looks like Masanobu Umeda is the original author according to
> http://flex.ee.uec.ac.jp/texi/gnus/gnus_1.html, and acknowldeges no
> significant prior version according to
> <http://flex.ee.uec.ac.jp/texi/gnus/gnus_3.html>.
>
> Maybe there's some confusion with a slightly older package called
> "Gnews", which I was using in 1982 (and also contributed some elisp
> for), authored by weemba.

I believe that there were both a "Gnus" and a "Gnews" before Masanubo
Umeda stepped in.  If I'm not mistaken, his first version was 2.x, and
it was built upon a mostly dormant "Gnus" tree from before that.



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