>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    Lars> Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org> writes:
    >> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) intern-soft(nil [0
    >> nntp+news\.speakeasy\.net:rec\.music\.early
    >> nnml+private:websurf nnml+private:linart 0 0 nnml+private:sunny
    >> 0 0 nnml+private:pilot-unix 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    >> nnml+private:abcdiscuss comp\.lang\.python 0
    >> nntp+news-east\.speakeasy\.net:rec\.humor\.funny
    >> nntp+news\.speakeasy\.net:rec\.humor\.funny
    >> nnml+private:wwwacct alt\.binaries\.vcd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    >> nnml+private:world\.old 0 0 comp\.sys\.palmtops\.pilot 0 0 0 0
    >> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 nnml+private:woyp]) gnus-group-highlight-line()

    Lars> So it's trying to intern nil into the newsrc hash table.
    Lars> This suggests to me that there's something buggy in the
    Lars> .newsrc.eld file.  Is there a "nil" group entry in there?

Not that I can see, but I'm attaching the copy I saved when I was
having the problem.