From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13120 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leonard Blanks Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Reading Gnus (so to speak) Date: 02 Dec 1997 20:01:23 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152542 7573 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:22:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:22:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11135 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 12:31:56 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA14478 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 14:34:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAH09595; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 14:11:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 02 Dec 1997 14:09:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09566 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 14:09:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 21197 invoked by uid 504); 2 Dec 1997 20:09:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21194 invoked from network); 2 Dec 1997 20:09:20 -0000 Original-Received: from post-20.mail.demon.net (HELO post.mail.demon.net) (194.217.242.27) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 1997 20:09:16 -0000 Original-Received: from haruspex.demon.co.uk ([158.152.162.249]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa2009533; 2 Dec 97 20:03 GMT Original-Received: (from ltb@localhost) by haruspex.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA03257; Tue, 2 Dec 1997 20:01:23 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-url: http://www.haruspex.demon.co.uk/ X-Attribution: Len X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.4.13.0; tzolkin = 3 Ahau; haab = 18 Ceh X-Face: %A\{?Lq8~"Q|Hsnb.bNQr-zc+?.>(5g>fh^&IV]=@zDZB$FphCy"|-6z^=%gb4J>_wVnA|R J?m|ktWFiSzx{y0+cXwDF#d,-Un@G&VXLjp7h/g?[YOTnUiMF$-Mz>"VGAXAG?lM,~E[gpFqXFmiy& qL$Jp6O]aW7$ZY,qs|ckwxiYbY>y;c*`wN2WE4qMgkya]q.;NqBmnB:Fe]?6#`#5~r/0/vP-vJ,u/y ^+_#lobR>7LgQE,Dm^_4N)nYB&V|}v.46YDR~7 In-Reply-To: SL Baur's message of "02 Dec 1997 02:28:15 -0800" Original-Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.17/XEmacs 20.4(beta7) - "Appenzell" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by altair.xemacs.org id MAA11135 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13120 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13120 >>>>> "sb" == SL Baur writes: sb> Matt Pharr writes: >> Somehow I've decided that it would be 'fun' to read some of gnus's >> source code and learn a bit more about elisp and news along the >> way. sb> Cool. >> (I freely admit that I'm a sicko, by the way.) sb> The desire to read source code is *not* a sign of a sick mind. Tell that to my ex-wife. I had to be up early the next day and she had the day off. I put the book I had been reading on the floor and went to sleep, whilst she continued reading, finished her book and, being too lazy to dig into the bookshelf for another, decided to start reading mine, which was Plauger's _The Standard C Library_; she did tell me in the morning that it was on the whole less interesting than Sußman's _Das Parfum_. At the weekend we had friends over. She brought the book out and related the tale, which ended with her friends agreeing that there was something not quite right about me and my friends asking to borrow the book. -- Len It possesses a sound rhythmic structure and facilitates terpsichorean movement; I'll give it an 85.