nnrss keeps forgetting feed URLs after session

[clemens fischer <ino-qc@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org>]

(this is a copy of my post to gnus.bugs, which should be more appropriate
here.)

No Gnus v0.3

GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.9, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-03-27 on spotteswoode.dnsalias.org

200 Leafnode NNTP daemon, version 2.0.0.alpha20040513a at
ID-23066.news.dfncis.de

hi.

i have had this problem for quite some time:  every once in a while nnrss
groups loose the URLs of their feeds.  the minibuffer queries for them
showing a default of "http://".  as there's no easy way to retrieve them,
i have to rely on the contents of News/rss/nnrss.el, which doesn't contain
any but the URLs saved in the current session.

i can `G R' a RSS group, *after* the gnus session it will be lost
permanently, but it works during the session.

one other thing:  i cannot edit the groups title or description:  if i do
that, RSS will either refuse to access the URL or not make it at all.  i
used to save the URL in the groups title to keep at least the URL.

is there anything i can do besides deleting all the feeds and starting
over?  i had removed the entire contents of News/rss/* and began anew
(several times), but as it stands now, nnrss is unusable!

regards,  clemens


------------------ Environment follows ------------------
(setq gnus-default-nntp-server "")
(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nntp "localhost"))
(setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnml:out")
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnfolder ""
                  (nnfolder-directory "~/Mail")
                  (nnfolder-active-file "~/Mail/active")
                  (nnfolder-newsgroups-file "~/Mail/newsgroups")
                  (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil))
        (nnmaildir ""
                   (directory "~/nnmaildir")
                   (get-new-mail nil)
                   (directory-files nnheader-directory-files-safe))
        (nnml ""
              (directory "~/mail-nnml")
              (get-new-mail t)
              (nov-is-evil nil)
              (nov-file-name ".overview"))))
(setq mm-inlined-types
      '("application/pgp$" "image/.*" "text/.*" "message/delivery-status" "message/rfc822" "message/partial" "message/external-body" "application/emacs-lisp" "application/x-emacs-lisp" "application/pgp-signature" "application/x-pkcs7-signature" "application/pkcs7-signature" "application/x-pkcs7-mime" "application/pkcs7-mime"))
(setq mm-automatic-display
      '("application/pgp$" "text/plain" "text/enriched" "text/richtext" "text/html" "text/x-vcard" "image/.*" "message/delivery-status" "multipart/.*" "message/rfc822" "text/x-patch" "application/pgp-signature" "application/emacs-lisp" "application/x-emacs-lisp" "application/x-pkcs7-signature" "application/pkcs7-signature" "application/x-pkcs7-mime" "application/pkcs7-mime"))
(setq mm-discouraged-alternatives
      '("text/html" "text/richtext"))