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>>>>> "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.
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