From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52257 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 15:53:42 -0400 Organization: FreeBSD/Linux Hippopotamus Preserve Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <65orpvqy.fsf@asfast.com> <84n0i2etnm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <86bryiecs4.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <867k96ecch.fsf@red.stonehenge.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 1052077987 13103 80.91.224.249 (4 May 2003 19:53:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 19:53:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M800@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 04 21:53:03 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 19CPXI-0003Nv-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 21:52:36 +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 19CPYS-0000hb-00; Sun, 04 May 2003 14:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19CPYO-0000hW-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 May 2003 14:53:44 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 67427 invoked by alias); 4 May 2003 19:53:43 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 67422 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 19:53:43 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO asfast.net) (hmbhcr@216.182.10.250) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 4 May 2003 19:53:43 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 0) by asfast.net with local; Sun, 04 May 2003 15:53:42 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "!ga1s|?LNLE3MeeeEYs(%LIl9q[xV9!j4#xf4!**BFW_ihlOb;:Slb>)vy>CJM (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "04 May 2003 12:33:18 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52257 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52257 merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz writes: > >>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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 > . > > 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. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com