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From: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnews
Subject: Welcome to gnu.emacs.gnews!
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Date: 14 Jun 89 17:49:42 GMT
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Reply-To: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
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I'd like to thank Karl Kleinpaste for creating this newsgroup so
quickly.  It is unlikely that others will join the mailing list now
given the nature of this group, but the mailing list will be
maintained indefinitely just in case...  If you know anyone who
doesn't get the gnu.all hierarchy and is interested in Gnews, tell
them to send a request to info-gnews-request@ics.uci.edu.

So, I guess the first thing we should do is figure out some scheme for
maintaining Gnews (given that Matthew Wiener has truly orphaned Gnews
-- I wouldn't want to step on any toes).  This group could degenerate
rather quickly into a flurry of different patches and incompatible
changes if we don't exercise a bit of caution.  We might want to try
to use keywords in the Keywords header or possibly Subject header to
specify if the posting is a patch or addition or whatever.  If it is
just a posting discussing the system, then no keyword would be
necessary.

Has anyone out there fixed any of the major bugs in Gnews 2.0?  I've
sent several fixes to Matt over the months, but haven't heard much in
response.  I don't even remember which ones I've reported.  Perhaps
the first order of business should be to come up with a list of known
bugs and then if anyone has fixes for any of them, those fixes should
be posted.  We can consolidate that into a new bugfix version and then
work from there.  I'd be willing to coordinate the integration of
fixes and maintain an ftp'able copy on ics.uci.edu.  We don't really
do anonymous uucp here, but perhaps Karl or Bob can arrange that.

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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