From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52258 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 22:00:14 +0200 Organization: http://purl.org/harder/ Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <65orpvqy.fsf@asfast.com> <84n0i2etnm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <86bryiecs4.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <867k96ecch.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052078477 14551 80.91.224.249 (4 May 2003 20:01:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 20:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M801@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 04 22:01:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19CPfE-0003l7-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 22:00:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19CPgP-0000mU-00; Sun, 04 May 2003 15:02:01 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19CPgL-0000mP-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 May 2003 15:01:57 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 67710 invoked by alias); 4 May 2003 20:01:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 67705 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 20:01:56 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 4 May 2003 20:01:56 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19CPhh-0007lR-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 22:03:21 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: localhost.localdomain!nobody Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0xc3d7e0e8.esnxr4.ras.tele.dk Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1052078601 29848 195.215.224.232 (4 May 2003 20:03:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 May 2003 20:03:21 GMT X-Face: ^RrvqCr7c,P$zTR:QED"@h9+BTm-"fjZJJ-3=OU7.)i/K]<.J88}s>'Z_$r; 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> | Reply-To: conor@dutch-goose.stanford.edu | Keywords: gnews | Summary: "gnews.el" is taken :-) | | In message , 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 `----