(gnus)History


History
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   GNUS was written by Masanobu UMEDA.  When autumn crept up in '94,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen grew bored and decided to rewrite Gnus.

   If you want to investigate the person responsible for this outrage,
you can point your (feh!) web browser to `http://quimby.gnus.org/'.
This is also the primary distribution point for the new and spiffy
versions of Gnus, and is known as The Site That Destroys Newsrcs And
Drives People Mad.

   During the first extended alpha period of development, the new Gnus
was called "(ding) Gnus".  "(ding)" is, of course, short for "ding is
not Gnus", which is a total and utter lie, but who cares?  (Besides,
the "Gnus" in this abbreviation should probably be pronounced "news" as
UMEDA intended, which makes it a more appropriate name, don't you
think?)

   In any case, after spending all that energy on coming up with a new
and spunky name, we decided that the name was _too_ spunky, so we
renamed it back again to "Gnus".  But in mixed case.  "Gnus" vs.
"GNUS".  New vs. old.

Gnus Versions: What Gnus versions have been released.
Other Gnus Versions: Other Gnus versions that also have been released.
Why?: What's the point of Gnus?
Compatibility: Just how compatible is Gnus with GNUS?
Conformity: Gnus tries to conform to all standards.
Emacsen: Gnus can be run on a few modern Emacsen.
Gnus Development: How Gnus is developed.
Contributors: Oodles of people.
New Features: Pointers to some of the new stuff in Gnus.

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