From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7871 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Harnois Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Red Gnus workaround for certain nntp servers Date: 11 Sep 1996 17:11:46 -0500 Sender: mharnois@sbt.net Message-ID: <87ohjcvh0d.fsf@mharnois.sbt.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.83) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148123 8802 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA30490 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 15:23:04 -0700 Original-Received: from mharnois.sbt.net (mharnois@[206.153.211.123]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:11:13 +0200 Original-Received: (from mharnois@localhost) by mharnois.sbt.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04236; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:11:48 -0500 Original-To: Steven L Baur In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 11 Sep 1996 10:55:37 -0700 Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.32/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7871 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7871 Steven L Baur writes: > Red Gnus feature tests for nntp server support are broken. The way > this bug shows up is that all article counts for nntp groups have '*'s > instead of numbers. This is because your server doesn't support `LIST > ACTIVE group' and Gnus doesn't know it. You can bypass the buggy > check by putting: > > (setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil) > > in your .gnus. While the workaround does work, and it is what I have been doing, Lars says I do not have a broken server ... + Michael D. Harnois + The Christian ideal has not been + + Pastor, computer nerd, + tried and found wanting; it has been + + Linux user, Havanese owner + found difficult and left untried. + + mharnois@sbt.net + --G. K. Chesterton +