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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> Oh!  I've always thought that Masanobu Umeda was the original
>> author.  Who was it?
>
> I can't for the life of me remember.  That was back in the Stone Age
> (the 1980's).
>
> All I remember is that gnus got to a certain point and then just sort of
> stopped being developed.  After a while, Umeda Masanobu came along and
> took the reins.
>
> Now I'm off to do some digging in the usenet archives ...

Can anyone point me to some ancient comp.sources.misc archives, from
1985-1990?  Google's news archives don't seem to go back that far.  The
first incarnation of gnus showed up in that time frame, and I'm sure
that I can find one or more pre-Umeda-Masanobu versions there.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com