From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22556 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Uwe Geuder" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: group names starting with digits Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 05:00:10 PDT Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <19990418120010.50452.qmail@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160455 29953 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:34:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26497 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 08:04:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB23536; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 07:00:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 18 Apr 1999 07:00:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA22578 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 07:00:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from hotmail.com (f47.hotmail.com [207.82.250.58]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA26452 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 08:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 50453 invoked by uid 0); 18 Apr 1999 12:00:10 -0000 Original-Received: from 194.213.91.6 by wy1lg.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 05:00:10 PDT X-Originating-IP: [194.213.91.6] Original-To: ding@gnus.org Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22556 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22556 Our company internal newsgroup names start with numbers, like 1.foo.bar 2.more.stuff Emacs 20.3's standard gnus (Gnus v5.5; nntp 5.0; nnvirtual 1.1; nnmh 1.0; nndraft 1.0) gets completely confused about this. nntp.el interprets the group names as NNTP response codes, doesn't wait long enough for the last responses and finally parses completely wrong group status info. This was mentioned earlier on this list: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: 08 Sep 1997 13:07:38 +0200 > > jdc@math.jhu.edu (Dan Christensen) writes: > >> Is there some reason that a group named 110.615 or 12345 should >> be visible even when it has no ticked or unread messages? > Groups with all-numerical names are poison. Having had a look at nntp.el I'd say it's in fact bad enough if the group name starts with a digit. Has anybody made a fix for that? It shouldn't be too difficult, but after 7 years without programming elisp I might not get it right on the first attempt... There seem to numerous places that need a change. Yes, I've checked pgnus-0.82 and the problematic code is still unmodified. Regards, Uwe ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com