Unable to create Dejanews nnweb groups

[Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>]

Greetings,

[Happens with both 0.96 and CVS version checked out at about
1999-11-09T17:21+0200.]

To save myself from the horrors of Dejanews' WWW site I decided to
try Gnus' search engine interface in an attempt to locate articles
mentioning "clorb" that have appeared in the comp.lang.lisp
newsgroup.

`G w dejanews<RET> clorb<RET>' results in a message "Contacting
x8.dejanews..." and after that a question "Honor redirection with
non-GET method (possible security risks)? (y or n) " to which I
answered `y' as I did to a following identical question.  After
that, Gnus says it contacts `www.deja.com:80', thinks for awhile,
and then says "Couldn't request group: No matching articles".

If I specify a newsgroup in search string (i.e. "~g comp.lang.lisp
clorb" as instructed in the Gnus manual), I get exactly the same
result.

If I use Dejanews <URL:http://www.deja.com/> directly, I get two
articles if I simply enter "clorb" to that quick search thing on
their front page and five articles (this time one of them is
actually the one I was looking for!) if I go to that "power search"
thing and enter "clorb" to the keywords box and "comp.lang.lisp" to
the forum box.

Am I doing something wrong or have they changed their output
(again) and Gnus hasn't yet been modified accordingly?

-- 
Hannu