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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: Is anyone maintaining GNUS these days?
Message-ID: <%&LY9@rpi.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 90 18:46:30 GMT
References: <Cyg.ki@cs.psu.edu>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In article <Cyg.ki@cs.psu.edu> flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
> Last I remember, Masanobu UMEDA disappeared and hasn't been heard from
> since.  Are you still out there?  If not, is there anyone actively
> supporting GNUS?  Or is anyone willing to take up the reins?  Will
> there ever be a GNUS 3.13, or would that be bad luck?

I am semi-actively supporting it for a few people around the net
who've asked me to get it to do this-or-that for them.  I was planning
on releasing a new gnus-user-tale.el in a couple of weeks that dealt
with this wishlist of mine:

a forward function for GNUS.
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modifiy GNUS to check for #.newsrc#.
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modify GNUS to look for a followups file or variable to auto-direct
replies to the right place if none is there.  (Original idea c/o
amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker))
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Hack GNUS's signature mechanism to allow more variety, easily and automatically
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Kludge around hardcoded C-h crud in people's messages.
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Find out how come GNUS doesn't like =group in active file.
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Retrieving articles from a newsgroup with GNUS, something in addition
to gnus-large-newsgroup is needed.  ranges/specific article num would be nice.
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Change GNUS to make .newsrc a hidden buffer.
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Fix up the sort call in gnus-save-newsrc-assoc to do a copy-sequence first.
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Make gnus-signature-file buffer local
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Make GNUS ignore null followup-to field.
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Add a "finger author" feature to GNUS
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GNUS catch-up-group-and-exit -- see if should select next group automatically.
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Don't have GNUS put in Followup-To: automatically, ever.
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Bag most of the Distribution: stuff; it is misleading because most
people don't know how broken that header line is.
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From kcollett@urbana.mcd.mot.com Tue Dec 12 16:35:59 1989
From: kcollett@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Kendall Collett)
Subject: XHDR nntp command
Date: 11 Dec 89 18:53:17 GMT

Are there any plans to modify GNUS to use the XHDR NNTP command?  (Or
has anybody modified GNUS to do so?)
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Figure out mysterious bug where point in *Subject* window sometimes
ends up on a random other line when an article is selected.
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Some of these have already been done, some haven't.  I'm not sure yet
when I'll feel comfortable with releasing it, but hopefully before the
end of the month.

Dave
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