From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9662 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t? Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:27:54 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189726827 11492 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2007 23:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:40:27 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 01:40:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IVyIG-0004a3-TI for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVyIG-0003Gb-9u for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:40:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: individual.net LdDlsOv1F7JHUG9zfZqx+AZ3HaxR8Tqn4BXFAUMc3dYIicxcI= Cancel-Lock: sha1:jKM6uTDlH255xHYPC0qYCPrmA6s= sha1:EVdsCJqqu/Ww61TTWIVsRpUtYuo= X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`; Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu; B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79865 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9662 Archived-At: >>>>> 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