At the bottom of the file OOOONEWS it says "For older news, see the file OOOONEWS".

[Dan Jacobson]

(The last straw.)

At the bottom of the file OOOONEWS it says
"For older news, see the file OOOONEWS".

Can't fool me, Stallman. Thought you'd have me looping for days. Not
even close.

I didn't check the others.

And how about a few more dates in those files next time:

8 lines matching "199\\|2000\\|release" in buffer NEWS.
    1:GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  25 May 2000
    2:Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    8:* Emacs 20.7 is a bug-fix release with few user-visible changes
   27:* Emacs 20.6 is a bug-fix release with one user-visible change
   32:* Emacs 20.5 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes.
 4170:* Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with no user-visible changes.
 4268:previously released version, except in the message composition area.
 4948:Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

one can see that many releases were released with only a "25 May
2000"... next time use ChangeLog mode or something  to give at least one
date per release for the historian / archeologist.
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