From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52229 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [OT] Of the meaning of GNUS Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 17:40:04 +0200 Organization: GNU Rox ! Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <65orpvqy.fsf@asfast.com> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052062742 25898 80.91.224.249 (4 May 2003 15:39:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 15:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M772@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 04 17:39:01 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 19CLZs-0006jM-00 for ; Sun, 04 May 2003 17:39:01 +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 19CLb5-0006LF-00; Sun, 04 May 2003 10:40:15 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19CLb1-0006LA-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 May 2003 10:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 57007 invoked by alias); 4 May 2003 15:40:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 57002 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 15:40:10 -0000 Original-Received: from rms.gnu-rox.org (HELO smtp.gnu-rox.org) (foobar@213.41.134.247) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 4 May 2003 15:40:10 -0000 Original-Received: from fxgs.gnu-rox.org.gnu-rox.org (unknown [10.0.0.10]) by smtp.gnu-rox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21DC3E077; Sun, 4 May 2003 17:40:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lloyd Zusman Adress: zedek@gnu-rox.org X-URL: http://www.gnusfr.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gnu-rox.org X-Gpg-Key-ID: 4CE51D71 X-Gpg-Fingerprint: 298B 37DE E2EF C030 5D64 6CFF C3DA E70E 4CE5 1D71 X-Gpg-Affinity: Will accept encrypted message for GNUpg X-Disclaimer: Fourty Two X-Accept-Language: en, fr Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: 63TbQAY?C>dKDtNNr7 (Lloyd Zusman's message of "Sat, 03 May 2003 17:26:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52229 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52229 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 3 mai 2003, Lloyd Zusman spake thusly: > Xavier Maillard writes: >=20=20 > > Hi, > >=20=20 > > 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 ? > >=20=20 > > I know this is strange but just for curiosity, does anybody know ? > >=20=20 > > Thx and sorry to bother about that ;) > >=20=20 > > zeDek >=20=20 > In English, the word "gnu" (meaning "wildebeest") can be pronounced > with a silent "g", so that it sounds exactly the same as "new". Yep got it now ;)=20 > Therefore, using that convention, "Gnus" would be pronounced like > "news". Since Gnus was originally created as a usenet newsreader, > that's a very appropriate name. Knowing how to pronounce it helps a lot :) =20=20 > And since it is developed to run under GNU Emacs, it very nicely > contains the name GNU. >=20=20 > And I'm sure you know what the GNU acronym stands for. ;) =20=20 zeDek --=20 http://www.gnusfr.org -- French Gnus user site Anti-war disclaimer: "Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity" --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+tTRUw9rnDkzlHXERAiXkAJ9XSP7Ylngz3Ji5y7oVRsPSK+wtTQCghpAL aCeK5IvDdLFq6ZdveHaFj0o= =/JYM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--