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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:

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| 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
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