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Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:01:55 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Sun, May 28 2006, David Kastrup wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> Don't use yaced if they offer only outdated CVS versions.  This Gnus
>> bug was fixed in Emacs CVS on 2005-12-09.
>
> "Don't use" is step #2 with free software.  Step #1 is to mail the
> author and ask whether he intends to release something to fix this
> soon.  

You might be right, but if someone distributes a random CVS snapshot
of Emacs which is intended for end-users, (s)he should make sure to
update it more often (the latest version of yaced seems to be more
than one year old).

Note that this particular bug was never present in any released Gnus
version.

Bye, Reiner.
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