Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

GNUS
     
         GNU news.
     
        A {GNU} {Emacs} subsystem for reading and sending {Usenet}
        {news}, written by Masanobu Umeda .
        You can use GNUS to browse through news groups, look at
        summaries of articles in a specific group, and read articles
        of interest.  You can respond to authors or write articles or
        replies to all the readers of a news group.
     
        GNUS can be configured to use the {NNTP} {protocol} to get
        news from a remove {server} or it can read it from local news
        {spool} files.
     
        {Usenet} newsgorup: {news:gnu.emacs.gnus}.
     
        (1995-05-04)