Re: Red Gnus v0.32 is released

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> 	* nntp.el (nntp-server-action-alist): Don't try LIST ACTIVE GROUP
> 	on Netscape's brain-dead nntp server.

I looks the problem is not the Netscape server, but somewhere in
`nntp-try-list-active'.

Here's typescript for my news-server:

  Script started on Tue Sep 10 17:55:25 1996
  tera ~ > telnet news.cis.umn.edu nntp
  Trying 128.101.83.4 ...
  Connected to epx.cis.umn.edu.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  200 newsstand.tc.umn.edu InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.4 22-Dec-93 ready (posting ok).
  LIST ACTIVE alt.nocem.misc
  501 [active|newsgroups|distributions|schema]
  GROUP alt.nocem.misc
  211 184 11941 13009 alt.nocem.misc
  QUIT
  205
  Connection closed by foreign host.
  tera ~ > exit
  exit

  script done on Tue Sep 10 17:56:09 1996

But somehow, `nntp-try-list-active' decides that

  nntp-server-list-active-group ==> t

When trying to debug `nntp-t-l-a', I popped to the ' *nntpd*' buffer: it
looked empty (didn't check for whitespace, though).  That would explain
why the `try...' code succeeds, but I couldn't figure out why the buffer
was empty.

End result, the same problem that others have been seeing, no
information on nntp groups.  Of course, a "5 g" takes care of that.

- Hari

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