May be 0.97 related

May be 0.97 related

[Harry Putnam]

Recently I've had an nnml group show up in group buffer that I don't
remember creating.   It shows:

    3560: nnml:help
When I click on it I get this message:
Couldn't request group nnml:help: Invalid group (no such directory)

In this case C-u G del won't work so I used C-k.  After closing and
opening gnus a few times the group comes back.  Looking the same as before.

Thinking it may be a long forgotten split rule I tried:

`grep 'help' ~/.gnus'   <no hits>

Re: May be 0.97 related

[Stainless Steel Rat]

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* Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>  on Tue, 12 Oct 1999
|     3560: nnml:help

This is one of the groups created by the gnus-group-create-useful-group
function (cf variable gnus-useful-groups).  It should actually be an nndoc
group pointing at the file gnus-tut.txt.
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Re: May be 0.97 related

[Harry Putnam]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> * Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>  on Tue, 12 Oct 1999
> |     3560: nnml:help
> 
> This is one of the groups created by the gnus-group-create-useful-group
> function (cf variable gnus-useful-groups).  It should actually be an nndoc
> group pointing at the file gnus-tut.txt.


Has Lars added 3551 new messages?  (he he)

I thought of that too, so before posting I opened the help group with
the normal `G h'.  It opened as an nndoc group as expected.  I then
deleted (C-k) this strange ghost "help" group.

I often get News and Mail with a short batch script and keep a log of
the activity.  Watching that log I see the ghost "help" group being
subscribed to in the messages:

Reading active file via nnml...
[...] snip
Opening nnfolder server on archive...

Reading active file from archive via nnfolder...
Reading active file from archive via nnfolder...done
*Subscribe newsgroup: nnml:help*
7 new newsgroups have arrived
Checking new news...
Opening nndraft server...
[...] snip

Re: May be 0.97 related

[Paul Stevenson]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Recently I've had an nnml group show up in group buffer that I don't
> remember creating.   It shows:
> 
>     3560: nnml:help
> When I click on it I get this message:
> Couldn't request group nnml:help: Invalid group (no such directory)
> 
> In this case C-u G del won't work so I used C-k.  After closing and
> opening gnus a few times the group comes back.  Looking the same as before.
> 
> Thinking it may be a long forgotten split rule I tried:
> 
> `grep 'help' ~/.gnus'   <no hits>

Do you have a '~/Mail/help' directory which could give some clue?

Re: May be 0.97 related

[Harry Putnam]

Paul Stevenson <spaul@mail.phy.ornl.gov> writes:


> > Thinking it may be a long forgotten split rule I tried:
> > 
> > `grep 'help' ~/.gnus'   <no hits>
> 
> Do you have a '~/Mail/help' directory which could give some clue?

No... I checked that before posting:

find ~/Mail -type f -name '*help*' -print  <no hits>

Re: May be 0.97 related

[Harry Putnam]

Martin Sandiford <ms@mcdev.com.au> writes:

> >>>>> "Harry" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
>     Harry> Paul Stevenson <spaul@mail.phy.ornl.gov> writes:
>     >> > Thinking it may be a long forgotten split rule I tried: > >
>     >> `grep 'help' ~/.gnus' <no hits>
>     >> 
>     >> Do you have a '~/Mail/help' directory which could give some clue?
> 
>     Harry> No... I checked that before posting:
> 
>     Harry> find ~/Mail -type f -name '*help*' -print <no hits>
>                        ^^^^^^^
> 
> This would need to be "-type d" for a directory for nnml folders?

Yeah, that was a typo I acutally ran -type d  and plain '
'find Mail -name help '  There is no such directory in Mail or news
yet every time I kill it it gets resubscribed next time I do a batch fetch.