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

> Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> > Life is much more important than Gnus (I can already see the people
> > lining up at my door with shotguns for saying this).
> 
> I don't agree with this.  I think Gnus is more important˛ than
> lifeš. :-)

How about both at once?

Make Gnus display a game of Life while waiting for the nntp server, or
movemail, or whatever.  Just watching the numbers go by gets kind of
dull after a while.

Of course, XEmacs should have little (or big) Gnu glyphs moving
around.  We regular standard FSF GNU Emacs users would just have to
suffer with the "@" patterns that the life package uses now....