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gnus: History

 
 11.2 History
 ============
 
 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.
 

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· Gnus Versions               What Gnus versions 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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