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I just installed emacs-18.56 on our DECstation server.
I have been using 'gnus' as news-reader for quite a while now.
Of course I was positively surprised to see that the current emacs
distribution includes quite a few gnus*.el file in $EMACS/lisp.

-- BUT: The gnus*.el files are quite outdated !!
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We have here locally a 'gnus' version  of June 90, and a diff of some of
the files showed a humongous difference!

Our local version of gnus.el has the header
$ diff <our local>/gnus.el  emacs-18.56/lisp/gnus.el
3,4c3,4
< ;; Copyright (C) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Masanobu UMEDA
< ;; $Header: gnus.el,v 3.13 90/03/23 13:24:27 umerin Locked $
---
> ;; Copyright (C) 1987, 1988, 1989 Masanobu UMEDA
> ;; $Header: gnus.el,v 3.12 89/06/19 13:36:31 umerin Exp $
..........

Similarly for gnuspost.el, etc.

$ diff -b ...our-local.../gnus/gnuspost.el  emacs-18.56/lispgnuspost.el
3,4c3,4
< ;; Copyright (C) 1989, 1990 Masanobu UMEDA
< ;; $Header: gnuspost.el,v 1.2 90/03/23 13:25:16 umerin Locked $
---
> ;; Copyright (C) 1989 Masanobu UMEDA
> ;; $Header: gnuspost.el,v 1.1 89/06/19 13:38:01 umerin Exp $
........

I do a CC: to the author of gnus,  umerin@tc.Nagasaki.GO.JP,
Maybe he could provide a more recent version to be included in the
distribution at  prep.ai.mit.edu.

Until then, we will have to stick to the non-official local version of
gnus. :-{

Martin Maechler, Bellcore 2M-343, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07962-1910, USA
maechler@bellcore.com, Tel: (201) 829-4837(w)  933-0944(h), Fax (201) 538-9093.