>>>>> "AM" == Andrew Markebo <andrew.markebo@telelogic.se> writes:

AM> Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97
AM> GNU Emacs 20.4.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit)
AM>  of Thu Jul 22 1999 on warp
AM> 200 127.0.0.1 DNEWS Version 5.2c, S7, posting OK 

AM> What I did was ^ to enter the server buffer, jumped to
AM> news.newsfeeds.com, enter.. chew chew chew.. whammo

AM> Connecting to news.newsfeeds.com...
AM> Reading active file...

AM> Reading active file...done
AM> Wrong type argument: stringp, 100622.2474

AM>         /Andy

AM> It is a huge list of articles.. here comes the backtrace:

AM> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp 100622.2474)
AM>   #[(l1 l2) "@	@(TM)‡" [l1 l2] 2]((100622.2474 . 1) (1a . 1))
AM>   sort(((ercielt . 1) (erg2310b . 1) (ernmc\.firewall-1 . 1238) 

[...]

AM>   gnus-browse-foreign-server("news.newsfeeds.com" #<buffer *Server*>)
AM>   gnus-server-read-server("news.newsfeeds.com")
AM>   call-interactively(gnus-server-read-server)

I guess I've fixed it. The weird behavior is because of the all-digit
group.  Could you test the patch (committed) ?

-- 
Shenghuo

1999-10-26 21:44:05  Shenghuo ZHU  <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>

	* gnus-srvr.el (gnus-browse-foreign-server): Use
 	`buffer-substring' instead of `read'.