** Gnus changes.
-*** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
+*** The Gnus alpha distribution no longer bundles Custom and Widget.
+If your Emacs doesn't come with these libraries, fetch them from
+<URL:http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/custom/>. You also then need to
+add the following to the lisp/dgnushack.el file:
-*** Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
-Gnus.
+ (push "~/lisp/custom" load-path)
-*** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
-`and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
+Modify to suit your needs.
-*** Article washing status can be displayed in the
-article mode line.
+*** New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been
+added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See the
+Gnus manual for the full story.
-*** gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
+*** The nndraft backend has returned, but works differently than
+before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft
+group, which is created automatically.
-*** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
+*** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
+values.
-(setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
+*** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
-*** New variables for specifying what score and adapt files
-are to be considered home score and adapt files. See
-`gnus-home-score-file' and `gnus-home-adapt-files'.
+*** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
+outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
-*** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
+*** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
+`C-u C-c C-c'.
-*** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
+*** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
-*** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
-See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
+*** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
+re-highlighting of the article buffer.
-*** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
-Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
-used to pick articles.
+*** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
-*** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
-another have been added.
+*** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
+Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
- `M-x gnus-change-server'
+*** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
+`a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
-*** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
-generating lines in buffers.
+*** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
+control over simplification.
-*** Several commands in the group buffer can be undone with
-`M-C-_'.
-
-*** Scoring can be done on words using the new score type `w'.
-
-*** Adaptive scoring can be done on a Subject word-by-word basis:
-
- (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))
-
-*** Scores can be decayed.
-
- (setq gnus-decay-scores t)
-
-*** Scoring can be performed using a regexp on the Date header. The
-Date is normalized to compact ISO 8601 format first.
-
-*** A new command has been added to remove all data on articles from
-the native server.
-
- `M-x gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups'
-
-*** A new command for reading collections of documents
-(nndoc with nnvirtual on top) has been added -- `M-C-d'.
-
-*** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
-
-*** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
-even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
-*** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
-
-*** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
-even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
-*** Process mark sets can be pushed and popped.
-
-*** A new mail-to-news backend makes it possible to post
-even when the NNTP server doesn't allow posting.
-
-*** A new backend for reading searches from Web search engines
-(DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
-
- Use the `G n' command in the group buffer to create such
- a group.
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