>>>>> Leo wrote:
> On 2007-09-13 13:09 +0100, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>> Do you think this should go to the manual?'
>> Isn't it enough?
>> (info "(gnus)Terminology")
>> ,----
>>|"NOV"
>>| When Gnus enters a group, it asks the back end for the headers of
>>| all unread articles in the group. Most servers support the News
>>| OverView format, which is more compact and much faster to read and
>>| parse than the normal HEAD format.
>> `----
>> I take time ten times as long as Japanese to write English. ;-)
> It is odd that it is not explained in the main text of the
> manual. Terminology is the last thing a user want to see.
Indeed. I was skeptical to make the Gnus manual describe in detail
such a common word. Since Gnus started as a simple news reader[1],
NOV was a self-explaining word, I believe. But I agree to add a
brief explanation in some place. Volunteer? (If no one stands,
I'll do it someday, even though I'm not a good English writer. ;-)
[1] It was GNUS in those days. How simple the one I used first
was: http://www.jpl.org/ftp/pub/elisp/attic/gnus-3.12.tar.Z
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