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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS
Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 22:00:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3he8axz1t.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867k96ecch.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> Maybe there's some confusion with a slightly older package called
> "Gnews", which I was using in 1982 (and also contributed some elisp
> for), authored by weemba.

Interesting.  The following message seems to suggest that GNUS was
temporarily called "GNU RRN" before it was renamed to GNUS:

,----
| From: conor@Helens.STANFORD.EDU (conor)
| Newsgroups: comp.emacs
| Subject: Re: Reading usenet inside Emacs
| Message-ID: <@Helens.STANFORD.EDU>
| Date: 27 Jan 88 21:30:15 GMT
| References: <7651@alice.UUCP> <UMERIN.RRN23@photon.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET>
| Reply-To: conor@dutch-goose.stanford.edu
| Keywords: gnews
| Summary: "gnews.el" is taken :-)
| 
| In message <UMERIN.RRN23@photon.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET>, umerin@photon.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET (Masanobu UMEDA) says:
| >It is now temporary called GNU RRN, but I haven't
| >decided its name yet.
| 
| I have a dired-style news reader called "gnews.el" so please
| don't grab that!
| 
| Conor Rafferty                  conor@su-glacier.arpa
| 231A Applied Electronics Lab.   conor@su-sierra.arpa
| Stanford University Ca.94305	decwrl!glacier!conor
| (415)497-1515
`----



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-04 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-03 20:58 Xavier Maillard
2003-05-03 21:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-03 21:10   ` Karl Kleinpaste
2003-05-03 21:45   ` Jesper Harder
2003-05-04 15:51     ` Glenn Morris
2003-05-03 22:37   ` Raymond Scholz
2003-05-04 15:38     ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-04 16:49       ` Oystein Viggen
2003-05-13 17:24         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 15:37   ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-03 21:07 ` Richard Hoskins
2003-05-03 21:26 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 13:19   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-04 14:20     ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 15:41       ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-04 16:27       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 18:17         ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 19:48           ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 19:23         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-05-04 19:33           ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-05-04 19:53             ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 20:09               ` Frank Schmitt
2003-05-04 20:34                 ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 20:53                   ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 21:21                   ` The early gnus shars (was: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS) Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-04 21:25                     ` The early gnus shars Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 22:03                       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 22:08                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-04 23:09                           ` Karl Kleinpaste
2003-05-05  2:06                             ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-05  3:17                               ` Bill White
2003-05-05 19:30                                 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-04 21:27                     ` The early gnus shars (was: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS) Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-05 19:31                       ` The early gnus shars Xavier Maillard
2003-05-05 20:34                       ` Frank Schmitt
2003-05-13 17:29                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-13 18:15                           ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-06-16  9:58                     ` Shigeki UNO
2003-05-04 20:00             ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-05-04 18:18       ` [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS Robert Marshall
2003-05-05 14:54       ` William M. Perry
2003-05-05 20:36         ` Jon Ericson
2003-05-04 15:40   ` Xavier Maillard
2003-05-04 15:54 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2003-05-05 19:30   ` Xavier Maillard

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