From xemacs-m  Sat Jan 25 20:36:37 1997
Received: from altair.xemacs.org (steve@xemacs.miranova.com [206.190.83.19])
          by xemacs.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP
	  id UAA03778 for <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:36:35 -0600 (CST)
Received: (from steve@localhost)
	by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA32022;
	Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:47:42 -0800
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.0-b92 is released
References: <m23evpqjsa.fsf@altair.xemacs.org> <199701260159.SAA12606@branagh.lanl.gov>
X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/
Mail-Copies-To: never
X-Face: #!T9!#9s-3o8)*uHlX{Ug[xW7E7Wr!*L46-OxqMu\xz23v|R9q}lH?cRS{rCNe^'[`^sr5"
 f8*@r4ipO6Jl!:Ccq<xoV[Qz2u8<8-+Vwf2gzJ44lf_/y9OaQ`@#Q65{U4/TC)i2`~/M&QI$X>p:9I
 OSS'2{-)-4wBnVeg0S\O4Al@)uC[pD|+
X-Attribution: sb
From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
In-Reply-To: John Turner's message of Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:59:44 -0700
Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.100)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Date: 25 Jan 1997 18:47:42 -0800
Message-ID: <m2wwt1p2y9.fsf@altair.xemacs.org>
Lines: 46
X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.1/XEmacs 20.0

John Turner writes:

> I was going to ask about that (Gnus).  I'm on the ding-announce
> list, but to be honest I don't follow it closely at all, but I did
> see that Red Gnus 0.84 was released, followed by 5.4.1.

Lars did the same thing with September Gnus v0.97 and Gnus 5.2.1 --
they were identical except for the name/version # change.

> Anyway, for those of us that don't know, can you give a brief overview
> of the most important changes in 5.4 in the 19.15b91 announcement?
> (Would probably be a good idea for the release anyway.)

> Just a suggestion (and one you've probably already thought of...)

See the file GNUS-NEWS in the top level of the Gnus distribution for a
detailed list.

The short version of the major changes:
* Customization of the environment is completely reorganized in a
  potentially non-backwards compatible fashion.  

* New backends have been added:  It is now possible to issue queries to
  Dejanews/Altavista/InReference and get Gnus groups in response.

* With smart, late-model NNTP servers, startup has been significantly
  speeded up.

* Support for POP3 has been improved.

* A lightweight mechanism for getting certain special effects was
  added:  *bold* appears in a bold font, /italic/ appears in an italic
  font, _underlined_ appears underlined, /*bold italic*/ appears in
  a bold-italic font.

Other cosmetic items have been added like putting a gnu glyph on the
modeline :-), and the option to play a theme song on startup (this
didn't work very well when I tried it because of the inability to play
sounds in the background).

In other words, one of the finest programs I've ever used just keeps
getting better ...
-- 
steve@miranova.com baur
Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be billed at $250/message.
Real men aren't afraid to use chains on icy roads.

