From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41321 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ShengHuo ZHU Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: google as a news server, redux Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 02:03:20 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <2n7kr2v9hj.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> References: <2nk7v544p1.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176734 5495 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:05:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 17848 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2002 07:04:28 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 1 Jan 2002 07:04:28 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16LIxt-0008VU-00; Tue, 01 Jan 2002 01:04:01 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 01 Jan 2002 01:03:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA14675 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 01:03:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 17826 invoked by alias); 1 Jan 2002 07:03:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17821 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2002 07:03:44 -0000 Original-Received: from roc-24-95-193-9.rochester.rr.com (HELO zsh.2y.net) (@24.95.193.9) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Jan 2002 07:03:44 -0000 Original-Received: (from zsh@localhost) by zsh.2y.net (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g0173Kd31411; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:03:20 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: ZSH X-Face: 'IF:e51ib'Qbl^(}l^&4-J`'P!@[4~O|&k#:@Gld#b/]oMq&`&FVY._3+b`mzp~Jeve~/#/ ERD!OTe<86UhyN=l`mrPY)M7_}`Ktt\K+58Z!hu7>qU,i.N7TotU[FYE(f1;}`g2xj!u*l`^&=Q!g{ *q|ddto|nkt"$r,K$[)"|6,elPH= GJ6Q Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Bill White's message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:21:17 -0600") Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41321 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41321 Bill White writes: > On the Feast of the Holy Family, A. D. 2001, at 00:12, ShengHuo ZHU said: > >> Bill White writes: >> >>> It seems that google now stores the original article information >>> for usenet postings. >>> >>> >>> then click on "Original Format": >>> >>> >>> Does this make it possible to use google as at least a read-only >>> news server? >> >> You might want to try `G w google RET group:gnu.emacs.gnus RET'. >> But because it is difficult to map article numbers to Message-ID, it >> is little possible to make them as permanent groups. > > That commands gives an error: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Couldn't request group: No matching articles") > signal(error ("Couldn't request group: No matching articles")) > error("Couldn't request group: %s" "No matching articles") > gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group("m3bsgg2ci0.fsf" (nnweb "m3bsgg2ci0.fsf" (nnweb-search "group:gnu.emacs.gnus") (nnweb-type google) (nnweb-ephemeral-p t)) t (# . group)) > gnus-group-make-web-group(nil) > * call-interactively(gnus-group-make-web-group) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I'm using the cvs version from about 10 minutes ago, with GNU Emacs > 21.1.50.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2001-12-23 on seton It works fine for me. I am not sure whether it is a url package related problem or not. If you have wget, lynx or curl installed, maybe you can try (setq mm-url-use-external t). ShengHuo