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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Agents?
Date: 04 Oct 1997 00:29:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m267reqy46.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "02 Oct 1997 15:03:03 -0400"

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> The Gnus agent is a kind of "virtual backend" for various Gnus backends.
> The agent (named after Forte's Agent and Free Agent software) allows Gnus
> to function as an offline message reader.

It's also a pun on the original pronunciation of GNUS.  You know.
"Gnusagent".

Ok.  You can stop hitting me now.  Ouch.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


      parent reply	other threads:[~1997-10-03 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-02 17:19 Agents? Norman Walsh
     [not found] ` <x7yb4c56oo.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-10-02 21:45   ` Agents? Norman Walsh
1997-10-03 11:20     ` Agents? Ezio Manini
1997-10-03 22:29   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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