From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33975 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Sebold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Releases Date: 02 Jan 2001 07:04:27 -0600 Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2n1yupsnt5.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169986 27977 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:13:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D466D049D for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 08:05:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB20182; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 07:05:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 02 Jan 2001 07:04:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA06485 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 07:04:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [195.204.10.139]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E537CD049D for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 08:04:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA23401 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:04:50 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: webuser229.lcms.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 978440689 24923 208.167.163.229 (2 Jan 2001 13:04:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jan 2001 13:04:49 GMT X-Face: KviMK/n@>[)^qaI{Lpl^/~TBbx0FI*=>m%|v%69pVbA~Eu+@S3?[ioF>k}7b0(TZIle..zs -U=po%Tr;2bo,WH01K|,QP7}+-&kb^QO ZSH> I guess some people prefer released versions. > > I've been watching for quite a while for a "release". > > I'm not about to download a "snapshot of the hour". I want someone to > say "I've tried all this, and it at least compiles". Speaking for the snapshots at ftp://ftp.gnus.org/pub/gnus/snapshots, let me be the first to say "I've tried all this, and it more than compiles; it works, usually flawlessly." I have seen exactly one thing that could be characterized as a bug in 5.8.8 (which has become Oort Gnus 0.01), and ShengHuo fixed it quite promptly when I described the symptoms. It really does work quite well. If you set mail-source-delete-incoming to nil (to which it defaults) then the odds of you actually losing mail are very low indeed, I should think. In several months of using snapshots, updated once a week or so, I've only had the one problem I described above, and that was with PGP/MIME, and it didn't lose my mail, it just broke decrypting and verifying for a while, and in the meantime Mutt got me around that. -- Charles Sebold Random Answer to an Emacs Very Frequently Asked Question: BG Colors: (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "green")) -- 7th of Teveth, 5761 -- A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait). -- Yu Suzuki, quoted on slashdot.org