From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52194 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 23:02:21 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051995685 4328 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 21:01:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 21:01:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M737@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 03 23:01:23 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 19C48D-00017Q-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 23:01:17 +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 19C49L-0000Bm-00; Sat, 03 May 2003 16:02:27 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19C49G-0000Bh-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 May 2003 16:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 15754 invoked by alias); 3 May 2003 21:02:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15749 invoked from network); 3 May 2003 21:02:22 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 3 May 2003 21:02:22 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19C4AB-0004i0-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 23:03:19 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1051995799 18094 80.91.231.2 (3 May 2003 21:03:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 May 2003 21:03:19 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Numbers's _Ee-Uh!_: "Insomnia" Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEX+2gqcgi7+1QP/2gP/ 3wL94ir91gvwyBjMqeKJAAACKklEQVR4nHXTTW+jMBAGYGehcO0gJb62INGrxUTZayT8B6KKcg2N Sq91Kuq/v+/YQLba7iiKIj+eDzuyKhHjONaj/x6q/E8AquZnYOZZSH+Dig03gYiuf4NRSiWlK1xB 7vpIxQJnAXVwmgqi1+EGJQsoR1RsAcVa6gGrPvcCRLtHuj6Rfi3rWp1le06O0GOIgBmyUY0RhuIR zXfvRfmEGcp6DBknwG6DUl+Djhkqgstoc7+591/1O+maqD4v4Cn/yDBK9k47nLOsPcDl2mkNZhk8 +1WSOzvS6nzCdrrH6RMILk5hPkc7ZGhSXq6FEzlpYvRwdrssgkQbroCNQduB0B5nDnAMCUaKmcxJ qRnQJIh85bmAi5Aym3yW0HzwAse05STvPlHJJLyhjzlXHVU7ede9sEQ4kpxcWTla152ouwgYgUty RP1UqbtO4uMGqBLi7TkHPDMn8jGqkt1SaroowEuAmJEelbXq6FmgByQGCeohTW0KyHs2ESQFsz5g O9ZV9sW8ZLDc2MVg2aa513qGMJf8PQY9EtyYPtwAzSveo1RGtO1/A7znaoZkj4w7wPNb57ttESEL GcpOJ+ovU8+dr2KpQ4DUTF2neeozud6mqmZobYJH98nN5HqsyVOqDvKirJ1H0dtrUzLenkCcqg3g nfxRjfxsYsYqMbOpWB7O/gZSfbYZ2pZBe16jWTOs3XN7E7OACMCusjRfQ7Kk8pqxBJJC039gCcCP 6/YPtNHUjgc/0igAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1bJw6BUR1SoobgWWjL9g9gIMKXE= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52194 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52194 Xavier Maillard writes: > I was taking my shower (yes I do sometimes :)), when something weird > appeared in my mind : what does Gnus means exactly ? What the 's' > meaning ? I think it's a phonetic pun. "Gnu" (when referring to the animal) is usually pronounced "new", so "GNUS" is "news", which is kinda apt for a news reader. I pronounce it with a hard "g", though, which makes the pun kinda disappear into the ether. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen