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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