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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Subject: Re: read-active-file some
Date: 17 Oct 1996 13:09:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2enixl5em.fsf@deanna.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 17 Oct 1996 20:37:37 +0100

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> Vinnie Shelton  <shelton@icd.teradyne.com> writes:

Vinnie> What is the problem with having gnus-read-active-file equal to
Vinnie> 'some?  This stopped working somewhere along the line in
Vinnie> rgnus, and it doesn't work in 0.52, at least for me, under
Vinnie> XEmacs 19.14.

Lars> I would appreciate it if somebody could take a look at this code
Lars> in nntp.el.  It apparently doesn't work for quite a lot of
Lars> people, but I have so far been unable to reproduce or fix the
Lars> bug.  The functions to peek at are `nntp-retrieve-groups' and
Lars> `nntp-try-list-active'.

I did this once, and sent them to gnus-bug.  The test for the presence
of LIST ACTIVE GROUP is bogus.  I've been using

(setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil)

in .emacs as a workaround, and it works fine.
-- 
steve@miranova.com baur
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What are the last two letters of "doesn't" and "can't"?
Coincidence?  I think not.


  reply	other threads:[~1996-10-17 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-17 15:35 Vinnie Shelton
1996-10-17 19:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-17 20:09   ` Steven L Baur [this message]
1996-10-19  5:53     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-19 17:45       ` Steven L Baur
1996-10-20  2:42         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-20  2:26           ` Steven L Baur

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