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>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

sb> I did this once, and sent them to gnus-bug.  The test for the presence
sb> of LIST ACTIVE GROUP is bogus.  I've been using
sb> 
sb> (setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil)
sb> 
sb> in .emacs as a workaround, and it works fine.

Lars> Yes, but why does the test fail?  I thought I managed to fix the
Lars> problem... 

Aieee!  The test doesn't fail on GNU Emacs, I just found out ... :-(

Lars> Hang on -- wasn't there a problem with the Netscape nntp server
Lars> which didn't return an error message when given the "LIST ACTIVE
Lars> group" command?  Uhm, yes:

Lars> (defvoo nntp-server-action-alist 
Lars>   '(("nntpd 1\\.5\\.11t" 
Lars>      (remove-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-mode-reader))
Lars>     ("NNRP server Netscape" 
Lars>      (setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil))))

Lars> So that variable should be set to nil when using Netscape's server.
Lars> Doesn't that work?

It works on Emacs but not on XEmacs :-(.
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steve@miranova.com baur
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