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1. kstrau+341[view] [source] 2026-02-03 16:11:30
>>todsac+(OP)
For context, this is the Lars Ingebrigtsen who wrote the manual for Gnus[0], a common Emacs package for reading email and Usenet. It’s clever, funny, and wildly informative. Lars has probably forgotten more about email parsing than 99% of us here will ever have learned.

The manual itself says[1]:

> Often when I read the manual, I think that we should take a collection up to have Lars psycho-analysed.

0: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/gnus.htm...

1: https://www.gnus.org/manual.html

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2. sovand+ot1[view] [source] 2026-02-03 17:52:52
>>kstrau+341
Not only the manual, but Gnus itself. I remember this guy from the university (UiO) when he started working on Gnus. He was a small celebrity among us informatics students, and we all used Emacs and Gnus, of course.
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3. rurban+p72[view] [source] 2026-02-03 20:36:03
>>sovand+ot1
Also gmane. The once popular mailing lists search site.
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4. jd3+Gr2[view] [source] 2026-02-03 22:21:11
>>rurban+p72
I discovered X-Face[0] through gmane! Such a blast from the past.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face

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