From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56585 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Epprecht Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: can't get news, please help. Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:01:24 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <86wu5zjeyj.fsf@i3d.home> References: <86ad2zw39k.fsf@i3d.home> <864qt39q2w.fsf@i3d.home> <87znavp43v.fsf@telia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078513161 21875 80.91.224.253 (5 Mar 2004 18:59:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:59:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5125@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 05 19:59:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AzKXO-0003j9-00 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:59:10 +0100 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 1AzKWs-0001EG-00; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:58:38 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AzKWl-0001EA-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:58:31 -0600 Original-Received: from mail01.solnet.ch (mail01.solnet.ch [212.101.4.135]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B2E3A003E for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:58:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail01.solnet.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26969621F5 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:58:30 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail01.solnet.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 94782-05 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:58:29 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from i3d.home (212-41-90-127.adsl.solnet.ch [212.41.90.127]) by mail01.solnet.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC833621CB for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:58:28 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from dada by i3d.home with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AzKZY-0000O7-00; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:01:24 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87znavp43v.fsf@telia.com> (Henrik Enberg's message of "Fri, 05 Mar 2004 18:59:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by SolNet Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56585 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56585 Henrik Enberg writes: > Robert Epprecht 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 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