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Someone who can make commits on gnus might want to fix this:

Here is " *temp*":

    <title>Hubble Delivers Indications Of Black Holes</title>
    <url>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/25/0111237</url>
    <time>2000-03-25 13:13:53</time>
    <author>timothy</author>
    <department>if-you-think-your-/job/-sucks</department>
    <topic>space</topic>
    <comments>32</comments>
    <section></section>
    <image>topicspace.gif</image>
  </story>

This code in nnslashdot.el:nnslashdot-request-list (around line 377 in
pgnus-0.99's nnslashdot.el) fails, because there is no match.

	(re-search-forward "<url>\\([^<]+\\)</url>")
	(setq sid (match-string 1))
	(string-match "/\\([0-9/]+\\).shtml" sid)
	(setq sid (match-string 1 sid))

Backtrace:
Signaling: (args-out-of-range "http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/25/0111237" 167 218)
  match-string(1 "http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/25/0111237")
  (setq sid (match-string 1 sid))
  (while (search-forward "<story>" nil t) (narrow-to-region (point) (search-forward "</story>")) (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward "<title>\\([^<]+\\)</title>") (setq description (match-string 1)) (re-search-forward "<url>\\([^<]+\\)</url>") (setq sid (match-string 1)) (string-match "/\\([0-9/]+\\).shtml" sid) (setq sid (match-string 1 sid)) (re-search-forward "<comments>\\([^<]+\\)</comments>") (setq articles (string-to-number ...)) (setq gname (concat description " (" sid ")")) (if (setq elem ...) (setcar ... articles) (push ... nnslashdot-groups)) (goto-char (point-max)) (widen))

Suggested hack: make the .shtml ending optional. (i.e., \\(.shtml\\)?)
This works for me.

	Sean.