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Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

> Make sure your group parameter is '(expiry-wait . never) and not
> '(expiry-wait never).

Oh, thanks!  Now this did it.

Funny, I tried (expiry-wait . 'never) first, which got automatically
translated into (expiry-wait quote never).  Then I tried Kai's
suggestion (expiry-wait never), which didn't work...

I think that the docs are a bit unclear on this one.
-- 
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.