What's the point of Gnus?
Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesGnus offers no real solutions to these questions, but I would very much like to see Gnus being used as a testing ground for new methods of reading and fetching news. Expanding on UMEDA-san's wise decision to separate the newsreader from the back ends, Gnus now offers a simple interface for anybody who wants to write new back ends for fetching mail and news from different sources. I have added hooks for customizations everywhere I could imagine it being useful.
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Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesThe latest released version of Gnus isn't included in Emacs 21, therefor you should get the Gnus tarball from http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz or via anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.gnus.org/pub/gnus/gnus.tar.gz. If you use XEmacs instead of Emacs you can use XEmacs' package system instead.
Related QuestionsGnus ManualGnus is released independent from releases of Emacs and XEmacs. Therefore, the version bundled with Emacs or the version in XEmacs' package system might not be up to date (e.g. Gnus 5.9 bundled with Emacs 20 is outdated). You can get the latest released version of Gnus from http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz or via anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.gnus.org/pub/gnus/gnus.tar.gz.Related Questions
Gnus Manual:The latest released version of Gnus isn't included in Emacs 21 and until now it also isn't available through the package system of XEmacs 21.4, therefor you should get the Gnus tarball from http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz or via anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.gnus.org/pub/gnus/gnus.tar.gz.Related Questions
Just how compatible is Gnus with GNUS?
Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesThe first "proper" release of Gnus 5 was done in November 1995 when it was included in the Emacs 19.30 distribution (132 (ding) Gnus releases plus 15 Gnus 5.0 releases). In May 1996 the next Gnus generation (aka. "September Gnus" (after 99 releases)) was released under the name "Gnus 5.2" (40 releases). On July 28th 1996 work on Red Gnus was begun, and it was released on January 25th 1997 (after 84 releases) as "Gnus 5.4" (67 releases).
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ANARCHISM.net / forum - Our own anarchist faq?quot;In short, the Anarchist tendency is a necessity of progress, a protest against usurpation, privilege, and injustice." quot;Interest and house-rent exist only because the State grants to a certain class of individuals and corporations the exclusive privilege of using its credit and theirs as a basis for the issuance of circulating currency.
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I sometimes read references to No Gnus and Oort Gnus, what are those?
Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesOort Gnus was the name of the development version of Gnus, which became Gnus 5.10 in autumn 2003. No Gnus is the name of the current development version which will once become Gnus 5.12 or Gnus 6. (If you're wondering why not 5.11, the odd version numbers are normally used for the Gnus versions bundled with Emacs)
Related QuestionsWhat is the latest version of Gnus?
Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesJingle please: Gnus 5.10 is released, get it while it's hot! As well as the step in version number is rather small, Gnus 5.10 has tons of new features which you shouldn't miss. The current release (5.10.8) should be at least as stable as the latest release of the 5.8 series.
Related QuestionsHow do I run Gnus on both Emacs and XEmacs?
Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesYou can't use the same copy of Gnus in both as the Lisp files are byte-compiled to a format which is different depending on which Emacs did the compilation. Get one copy of Gnus for Emacs and one for XEmacs.
Related QuestionsHow to import my old mail into Gnus?
Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesThe easiest way is to tell your old mail program to export the messages in mbox format. Most Unix mailers are able to do this, if you come from the MS Windows world, you may find tools at http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net/. Now you've got to import this mbox file into Gnus. To do this, create a nndoc group based on the mbox file by saying 'G f /path/file.mbox RET' in Group buffer. You now have read-only access to your mail.
Related QuestionsHow do I authenticate with Gnus?
GNU Emacs FAQ for WindowsIf you need to connect and post to an authenticated news server, you'll need to give Gnus a password to send along to the server. To have Gnus prompt for a password, add the following to your startup file: (add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-authinfo)
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Highlights and FAQ'sPoint to point pipetting refers to delivery a volume between points on a serological pipet. The volume in tip of the pipet is not included.
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What's my point?
ClubTread Community Forums - Tick SeasonI'm just a little tired of how excited people get over such a little thing. Yes, you can get Lyme Disease. Yes you can go to all the trouble of packing up the little buggers in sterile containers with a wet cotton ball and shipping them off to some lab so you can sleep at night knowing that your sore neck is not due to that walk inthe woods you took last week.
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Oolite FAQ - EliteWikiTo fly from planet to planet, buying and selling goods, shooting pirates or committing acts of piracy. There's no goal other than perhaps to achieve the rank of ELITE.
Related QuestionsWhat is a Bonus Point?
Handipoints - Help and Frequently Asked QuestionsEvery Task comes with a Bonus Point value as well as a Handipoint value. You cannot change the Bonus Point value of a Task. While Handipoints are used to achieve real-life goals, Bonus Points will let your child purchase clothing for their virtual Cat character and unlock games and virtual prizes inside the online world of HandiLand. These activities make tracking chores online fun, educational and entertaining. [back to top]
Related QuestionsGnus doesn't remember which groups I'm subscribed to, what's this?
Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesYou get the message described in the q/a pair above while starting Gnus, right? It's an other symptom for the same problem, so read the answer above.
Related QuestionsI want Gnus to fetch news from several servers, is this possible?
Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesOf course. You can specify more sources for articles in the variable gnus-secondary-select-methods. Add something like this in ~/.gnus.el: add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.yourSecondProvider.net")) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.yourThirdProvider.net"))
Related QuestionsStarting Gnus is really slow, how to speed it up?
Frequently Asked Questions: AppendicesThe reason for this could be the way Gnus reads it's active file, see the node "The Active File" in the Gnus manual for things you might try to speed the process up. An other idea would be to byte compile your ~/.gnus.el (say 'M-x byte-compile-file RET ~/.gnus.el RET' to do it). Finally, if you have require statements in your .gnus, you could replace them with eval-after-load, which loads the stuff not at startup time, but when it's needed. Say you've got this in your ~/.gnus.el:
Related QuestionsCan I see your .emacs/.bashrc/.gnus/whatever?
FAQ - Ciaran O'RiordanUnfortunately not anymore. My config files were all online but the links broke when I reorganised the site. Fixing the links is somewhere low down on my todo list.
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