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- ** Gnus changes.
-
- *** nntp.el has been totally rewritten in an asynchronous fashion.
-
- *** Article prefetching functionality has been moved up into
- Gnus.
-
- *** Scoring can now be performed with logical operators like
- `and', `or', `not', and parent redirection.
-
- *** Article washing status can be displayed in the
- article mode line.
-
- *** gnus.el has been split into many smaller files.
-
- *** Suppression of duplicate articles based on Message-ID.
-
- (setq gnus-suppress-duplicates t)
-
- *** 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'.
-
- *** Groups can inherit group parameters from parent topics.
-
- *** Article editing has been revamped and is now usable.
-
- *** Signatures can be recognized in more intelligent fashions.
- See `gnus-signature-separator' and `gnus-signature-limit'.
-
- *** Summary pick mode has been made to look more nn-like.
- Line numbers are displayed and the `.' command can be
- used to pick articles.
-
- *** Commands for moving the .newsrc.eld from one server to
- another have been added.
-
- `M-x gnus-change-server'
-
- *** A way to specify that "uninteresting" fields be suppressed when
- generating lines in buffers.
-
- *** 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.
-
- *** A new backend for reading searches from Web search engines
- (DejaNews, Alta Vista, InReference) has been added.
-
- Use the `G w' command in the group buffer to create such
- a group.
-
- *** Groups inside topics can now be sorted using the standard
- sorting functions, and each topic can be sorted independently.
-
- See the commands under the `T S' submap.
-
- *** Subsets of the groups can be sorted independently.
-
- See the commands under the `G P' submap.
-
- *** Cached articles can be pulled into the groups.
-
- Use the `Y c' command.
-
- *** Score files are now applied in a more reliable order.
-
- *** Reports on where mail messages end up can be generated.
-
- `M-x nnmail-split-history'
-
- *** More hooks and functions have been added to remove junk
- from incoming mail before saving the mail.
-
- See `nnmail-prepare-incoming-header-hook'.
-
- *** The nnml mail backend now understands compressed article files.
-
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