From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43972 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dmkarr@earthlink.net (David M. Karr) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Stability/value of moving from Gnus 5.8.8 to ognus 0.05 Date: 22 Mar 2002 13:49:42 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <861yecclxl.fsf@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016833923 24965 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2002 21:52:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:52:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16oWx8-0006UE-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:52:02 +0100 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 16oWvJ-0001cx-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:50:09 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:50:14 -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 PAA14832 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:50:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 1050 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2002 21:49:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1045 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2002 21:49:49 -0000 Original-Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (HELO scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net) (207.217.120.49) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Mar 2002 21:49:49 -0000 Original-Received: from evrtwa1-ar4-004-078.elnk.dsl.gtei.net ([4.35.4.78] helo=wondark.earthlink.net) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16oWur-0004Q3-00 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:49:41 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp (Windows [1])) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43972 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43972 I've been using Gnus 5.8.8 in XEmacs/Cygwin (21.4.6) on Win2k, for quite a while. However, I'm frustrated with several problems that happen occasionally, like: 1. Every couple of days, the instant I send a message, XEmacs dies. It always finishes writing the note into my "gcc" folder, but I'm not certain whether it actually sent the note. 2. I sometimes get notes which are not straight text. Html, for instance, which I would actually like to read. Often, when I try to read these notes, it hangs while "Drawing", and I eventually have to manually kill XEmacs. I have one note that I've been saving that seems to do this every time (although I've only tried this 2-3 times, not right after each other). 3. While reading nntp groups, I often get into a state where when I press "Space" to select a note, the display doesn't change until either ~15 seconds elapse or I move the window focus to another window (or the desktop). It doesn't do this all the time, but once it gets into this state, it happens on every single note in nntp groups, until I kill XEmacs and start over. Otherwise, my Gnus experience is pretty good. My question is, if I install the 0.05 Oort release ("ognus", I assume?) from "1/20/2002", is there any expectancy of any of these problems being alleviated, and hopefully not be replaced by others? I don't consider myself a "power" Gnus user. I just use nntp and nnml groups with topics, but I connect to several different nntp servers. -- =================================================================== David M. Karr ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++ dmkarr@earthlink.net