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)