Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (10/24/90)
>>>>> On 23 Oct 90 12:39:21 GMT, dansmith@olsen.UUCP (Dan Smith) said:
Dan> What can I use, other than rn, to read netnews? Inventive
Dan> shell scripts, etc... would also be appreciated.
GNUS... see news group gnu.emacs.gnus. Many "cool cats" use it.
Oh look, I posted a page of the manual:
File: gnus Node: Introduction, Prev: Top, Up: Top, Next: Installation
Introduction
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GNUS is a program for reading and writing USENET news using GNU Emacs.
This manual documents the use and simple customization of GNUS.
Unlike other conventional newsreaders such as rn which was (:-) the
most popular newsreader in the world, GNUS runs inside the GNU Emacs
editor as a subsystem. This means that there is no need to invoke an
editor when composing articles or mail. The reading and writing of
articles can be done in the same Emacs environment you usually work in.
Like rrn, a remote version of rn, GNUS can use computer networks for
retrieving articles. This means that there is no need to have a local
copy of the news spool, to mount a remote file system over the network,
or to run Emacs on a remote machine. Its great advantage is to balance
loads and exploit resources of the entire computer system in a
distributed environment. The protocol used by GNUS is "NNTP", the
Network News Transfer Protocol, defined by RFC977.
Unlike rrn, GNUS can talk to many NNTP servers easily. The only thing
you have to do is to create startup files for each NNTP server.
Like other libraries of GNU Emacs, GNUS is completely written in Emacs
lisp. This means that GNUS is highly extensible and customizable just
like GNU Emacs. It is possible to change the behavior of GNUS and
extend its functions by using variables and hooks.
GNUS is pronounced *"NUZ"*. Never call it *"ghu-NUZ"* nor
*"ghu-NAS"*.
This manual is currently in progress and thus is incomplete. Your
suggestions, bug fixes, and contributions are welcome.
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Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708-979-6364merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (10/24/90)
In article <1990Oct24.160550.12521@cbnewse.att.com>, Dan_Jacobson@ATT writes: | >>>>> On 23 Oct 90 12:39:21 GMT, dansmith@olsen.UUCP (Dan Smith) said: | | Dan> What can I use, other than rn, to read netnews? Inventive | Dan> shell scripts, etc... would also be appreciated. | | GNUS... see news group gnu.emacs.gnus. Many "cool cats" use it. And other "cool cats" use Gnews. See newsgroup gnu.emacs.gnews. (Gnews is much more rn-like... I can go back and forth easily.) Just another Gnews-reader, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Intel put the 'backward' in 'backward compatible'..."=========/