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

> Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>> I've seen that in the past too and knew about the off on trick.  This
>> is different.   There is no hang. The process flashes by as if it had
>> been done but the groups are not refreshed.  Pressin M-g on
>> individual groups will refresh them.
>
> Hm...  Could you try moving a couple of these groups to, say, level 1
> and see whether that makes any difference?

This was the same problem posted under:
  From: Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> 
  Subject: get-new-news misbehaving?
  Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
  Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 05:05:43 GMT
  Message-ID: <m2adikcnqb.fsf@sbcglobal.net>

Your suggestion there was to set `nntp-server-list-active-group' to
nil.

I did that and it cured my problem. So apparently server related.