Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?

[Leo]

On 2007-09-14 00:27 +0100, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>> I take time ten times as long as Japanese to write English. ;-)
>
>> It is odd that it is not explained in the main text of the
>> manual. Terminology is the last thing a user want to see.
>
> Indeed.  I was skeptical to make the Gnus manual describe in detail
> such a common word.  Since Gnus started as a simple news reader[1],
> NOV was a self-explaining word, I believe.  But I agree to add a
> brief explanation in some place.  Volunteer?  (If no one stands,
> I'll do it someday, even though I'm not a good English writer. ;-)

I am non-native speaker myself.

> [1] It was GNUS in those days.  How simple the one I used first was:
> http://www.jpl.org/ftp/pub/elisp/attic/gnus-3.12.tar.Z

That is impressive and it looks like it still runs in modern GNU Emacs.

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