From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Some thoughts on NoCeM and switching servers
Date: 20 Sep 1997 20:13:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wwkbj1kj.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Scott Hofmann's message of "Thu, 18 Sep 1997 10:29:58 -0400"
Scott Hofmann <shofmann@intertv.com> writes:
> The first problem I had was in logging into the NNTP server. It's a
> secure server that requires a login and password, so I initiallly
> set nntp-authinfo-function to nntp-send-nosy-authinfo. When I ran
> gnus, it did stuff in a backwards order: it connected to the NNTP
> server, and then asked for the login information.
That's what's supposed to happen -- the server asks for authinfo by
issuing a "480" response, and Gnus is supposed to reply to that. But
it sounds like there's a bug there somewhere, since it hangs. Could
you `(setq debug-on-quit t)' and `C-g' when it starts spinning? Send
me the resulting backtrace.
> The second problem was with NoCeM. When there is no NoCeM/active
> file, it would be nice if NoCeM behaved as if gnus-nocem-expiry-wait
> was set to 0 - on my new NNTP server there were over 10,000 unread
> messages in news.lists.filters alone, and given how slow my NNTP
> connection is it would have taken gnus nearly 12 hours to read
> news.lists.filters alone, much less alt.nocem.misc and the other
> NoCeM groups. It seems like this could be fixed with a bit of elisp
> - if NoCeM is creating its active file then it should consider all
> NoCeM messages as "read" so that gnus doesn't spend hours and hours
> reading NoCeM messages during gnus' first invocation on a new
> server.
But that might be what some people would want -- fetch all the NoCeM
messages so that all spam would be NoCeM'ed out.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-20 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-18 14:29 Scott Hofmann
1997-09-20 18:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-09-21 3:24 ` Don Croyle
1997-09-21 16:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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