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://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/'.  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.

   The first "proper" release of Gnus 5 was done in November 1995 when
it was included in the Emacs 19.30 distribution.

   In May 1996 the next Gnus generation (aka.  "September Gnus") was
released under the name "Gnus 5.2".

Menu

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.

Contributors

Oodles of people.

New Features

Pointers to some of the new stuff in Gnus.

Newest Features

Features so new that they haven't been written yet.