From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:27:54 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4msl5iw3gl.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.805.1189690509.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
>>>>> Leo wrote:
> On 2007-09-13 13:09 +0100, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>> Do you think this should go to the manual?'
>> Isn't it enough?
>> (info "(gnus)Terminology")
>> ,----
>>|"NOV"
>>| When Gnus enters a group, it asks the back end for the headers of
>>| all unread articles in the group. Most servers support the News
>>| OverView format, which is more compact and much faster to read and
>>| parse than the normal HEAD format.
>> `----
>> I take time ten times as long as Japanese to write English. ;-)
> It is odd that it is not explained in the main text of the
> manual. Terminology is the last thing a user want to see.
Indeed. I was skeptical to make the Gnus manual describe in detail
such a common word. Since Gnus started as a simple news reader[1],
NOV was a self-explaining word, I believe. But I agree to add a
brief explanation in some place. Volunteer? (If no one stands,
I'll do it someday, even though I'm not a good English writer. ;-)
[1] It was GNUS in those days. How simple the one I used first
was: http://www.jpl.org/ftp/pub/elisp/attic/gnus-3.12.tar.Z
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-13 23:27 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.798.1189676680.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-13 10:15 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-13 10:44 ` Leo
2007-09-13 10:47 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.801.1189680591.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-13 12:09 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-13 13:33 ` Leo
2007-09-26 20:50 ` Reiner Steib
2007-09-26 23:31 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-26 23:43 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.805.1189690509.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-13 23:27 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2007-09-14 0:43 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.829.1189730734.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-14 5:14 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2007-09-14 19:46 ` Adam Sjøgren
2007-09-14 11:02 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-14 13:47 ` Lowell Gilbert
2007-09-15 3:46 ` Allan Gottlieb
[not found] ` <mailman.893.1189828008.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-17 23:55 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-24 8:36 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
2007-09-25 4:17 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-14 15:57 ` Leo
2007-09-13 9:42 Leo
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