From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com>
Subject: Re: po colon po:
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 18:38:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxkisxgic5l.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ylptrov784.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> What do the letters nn represent mnemonically?...
>> in the part of the expression
>> nnmail
> This one I don't know.
netnews.
There were once just server methods nntp and nnspool. For Gnus 5,
along came nnml, nnmh, and the rest, perpetuating the (bad?) habit
which really fits only nntp -- nothing else is actually netnews. Gnus
just makes it all smell kinda netnews-ish.
It's kinda funny that the "nn" prefix held for Gnus 5, considering
that the last serious change to GNUS 4 for mail was the primitive
"mixspool" method, by Scott Blachowicz, which combined nntp with what
we'd now call nnml-style access.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-26 23:38 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <y44y96cy3hd.fsf@nestle.ai.mit.edu>
2002-12-26 20:14 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <ylptrov784.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
2002-12-26 23:38 ` Karl Kleinpaste [this message]
2002-12-27 10:31 ` Kai Großjohann
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