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Gene Heskett wrote:
> URL please?

Package: gnus
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: news
Installed-Size: 10432
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Version: 5.10.6-0.CVS.20050104-1
Provides: news-reader, mail-reader, imap-agent
Depends: ucf, emacs21 | xemacs21, make
Suggests: w3-el-e21, netpbm, openssl
Conflicts: semi, wemi, t-gnus, flim (<< 1.14.5+0.20030430-4)
Description: A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.
 Gnus is a message-reading laboratory.  This is by far the most
 powerful and extensible news reader that I am aware of. It will let
 you look at just  about anything as if it were a newsgroup.  You can
 read mail with it,  you can browse directories with it, you can ftp
 with it---you can even read news with it! It handles single file
 groups, MH format folders, mbox files, digests, knows about POP,
 etc. It can split incoming mail a la procmail.
 .
 This version of gnus handles MIME natively. It adds offline reading
 capability with gnus-agent. It is not compatible with older versions
 of TM (since a large number of hooks and variables have changed to
 allow that). NOTE: Please do not use tm-gnus with  this version.
 .
 Instead of boring old KILL files, it has an adaptive multifaceted
 scoring mechanism -- you add or reduce the score of the article based
 on rules, and a component of the score comes in from your past
 behaviour -- for example, articles similar to ones you read and saved
 get higher scores. This adaptive mechanism is one of the most
 interesting part of Gnus.
 .
 Gnus tries to empower people who read news the same way Emacs
 empowers people who edit text.  Gnus sets no limits to what the user
 should be allowed to do.  Users are encouraged to extend Gnus to make
 it behave like they want it to behave.  A program should not control
 people; people should be empowered to do what they want by using (or
 abusing) the program.
 .
 Gnus comes by default with XEmacs, but this is a stand alone package
 that replaces the stock Gnusii.
 .
 A note for people  using the nnimap backend:  SSL support requires w3-el-e2X;
 and even otherwise w3-el makes following hyperlinks in mail and news
 easier .  The upstream sources for this package are available at
 http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz

-- 
John Hasler



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