From: Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch>
Subject: Re: can't get news, please help.
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:01:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wu5zjeyj.fsf@i3d.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87znavp43v.fsf@telia.com> (Henrik Enberg's message of "Fri, 05 Mar 2004 18:59:16 +0100")
Henrik Enberg <henrik.enberg@telia.com> writes:
> Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:
>
>> After doing 'J j g' (which behaves like it did before) I do 'J s' and get
>> Error Wrong type argument: stringp, nil. Continue? (y or n)
>> The above mentioned message contains the (lengthy) backtrace I get.
>
> You wouldn't be happening to use the News.CIS.DFN.DE server? If so, go
> to <http://news.cis.dfn.de/serversplit-en.html> to learn what's up.
Bingo, that's it!
Remains only the question if Gnus could not be made to give better error
messages in cases like this (the name of the newsserver was changed)
Thanks a lot, Robert
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 17:46 can't get news Robert Epprecht
2004-03-05 17:11 ` can't get news, please help Robert Epprecht
2004-03-05 17:59 ` Henrik Enberg
2004-03-05 19:01 ` Robert Epprecht [this message]
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