From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24590 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Stephens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Where do you get your elisp? Date: 03 Aug 1999 21:05:19 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199908031936.PAA85527@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162129 9528 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:02:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA11346 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 16:34:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAB19227; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:33:23 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 03 Aug 1999 15:34:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09519 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:33:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA11327 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 16:32:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cenderis.demon.co.uk ([193.237.0.193]) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11BlEf-00012j-0C for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 20:32:41 +0000 Original-Received: (from bruce@localhost) by cenderis.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA01578; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:31:27 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: "Edward J. Sabol"'s message of "Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:36:10 -0400 (EDT)" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/21.1 (Arches) Original-Lines: 21 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24590 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24590 "Edward J. Sabol" writes: > I think the current state of elisp archiving is pretty sad. The > elisp user *and* developer communities badly need the equivalent of > Perl's impressive Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN). Well, the elisp-archive was good. Personally, I use XEmacs mostly, so since I started using XEmacs21, the packages provide a convenient way of upgrading things. > To answer your question, I get my elisp almost exclusively from the > gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup, but I'm always missing articles since I > don't have time to read news as often as I would like and my news > server expires articles too quickly for my reading habits. (Does > anyone know of a searchable archive for gnu.emacs.sources on the > Web?) Well, is the obvious one. I know the interface changes approximately weekly, but if you can find the article you're interested in, there's a link so you can get at the original article format.