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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> And while Lars is certainly an authority on the pronunciation of "Gnus",
>> I recall when it first came out (even before Umeda Masanobu took over
>> its development), 
>
> Oh!  I've always thought that Masanobu Umeda was the original
> author.  Who was it?

I can't for the life of me remember.  That was back in the Stone Age
(the 1980's).

All I remember is that gnus got to a certain point and then just sort of
stopped being developed.  After a while, Umeda Masanobu came along and
took the reins.

Now I'm off to do some digging in the usenet archives ...


> (Gee.  You'd have thought somebody would have mentioned this before
> now!  :-)

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
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