The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)