On 5 mai 2003, Bill White spake thusly:

>  On Sun May 04 2003 at 21:06, Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> said:
>
> >  So tahat's around 2 minutes startup time for 12,000 groups.  If we
> >  went with the B News maximum of 512, that's a factor of 24, or only
> >  5 seconds for startup.  That doesn't seem bad, until you remember
> >  how slow the machines were back then.
> >
> >  I wonder if we'll ever find a 1.x or even 0.x version of gnus to
> >  play with.
> >
> >  So far, I haven't gotten a reply from Masanobu ... if he does get
> >  back to me, I'm going to ask him if he knows of any earlier
> >  versions.
>
>  Someone should write a book, or at least a long texinfo file.

You take the point ;) I would be interested in reading the whole gnus
story.

>  Cheers -

Same

zeDek
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