From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52952 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Epprecht Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent and 'Couldn't open server' Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 15:44:58 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <867k87jkmd.fsf@i3d.home> References: <86isrvexqt.fsf@i3d.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054388575 15460 80.91.224.249 (31 May 2003 13:42:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1496@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 31 15:42:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19M6dD-00040X-00 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 15:42:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19M6er-0008FO-00; Sat, 31 May 2003 08:44:29 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19M6ej-0008FI-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 31 May 2003 08:44:21 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 49655 invoked by alias); 31 May 2003 13:44:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 49649 invoked from network); 31 May 2003 13:44:20 -0000 Original-Received: from djoezi.solnet.ch (HELO virusscan.solnet.ch) (212.101.0.150) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 31 May 2003 13:44:20 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.solnet.ch [127.0.0.1]) by virusscan.solnet.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080A12124F for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 13:44:18 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from mail01.solnet.ch (mail01.solnet.ch [212.101.4.135]) by virusscan.solnet.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4456F2124A for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 13:44:17 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail01.solnet.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED54621E7 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 13:44:13 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from i3d.home (adsl-212-41-65-120.solnet.ch [212.41.65.120]) by mail01.solnet.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42DE620CF for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 13:44:01 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from dada by i3d.home with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19M6fK-0000bH-00; Sat, 31 May 2003 15:44:58 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kevin Greiner's message of "Wed, 28 May 2003 22:07:42 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by SolNet virusscan.solnet.ch Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52952 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52952 Kevin Greiner writes: > Robert Epprecht writes: > >> [ ... ] forgot to tell the Agent that gnus is unplugged... >> [ ... ] and wanted to read news. Gnus tells me, that it can't >> connect and offers me to go offline. [ ... ] I answer 'n' and do 'J J' >> instead. But when I try to enter a group Gnus still tells me that it >> 'Couldn't open server'. > Well, you left off one additional connection state: denied. If you > are online but unable to connect to a server, you are given the choice > between changing the server's state from online to either offline > (i.e. use the agent) or denied (i.e. do not use the agent). You > choosed the later which is why you're getting the "couldn't open > server" message. So you say choosing not to go offline implies to switch to the 'denied' state which means not to use the agent... Ahh, I see. I did not get that right. [ testing... ] Yes, answering 'y' does what I want. I guess there is a reason, why Gnus uses the word 'offline' and not 'unplugged' when it asks me what I want. (As I told already I do not grok the difference between 'unplugged' and 'offline'). Thank you, Robert.