From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
Subject: Re: google as a news server, redux
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:21:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38zbk2cdu.fsf@wolfram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2nk7v544p1.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> (ShengHuo ZHU's message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:12:10 -0500")
On the Feast of the Holy Family, A. D. 2001, at 00:12, ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> said:
> Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
>
>> It seems that google now stores the original article information
>> for usenet postings.
>>
>> <url:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=lyiu0s1k73.fsf%40shasta.cs.uiuc.edu>
>> then click on "Original Format":
>> <url:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=lyiu0s1k73.fsf%40shasta.cs.uiuc.edu&output=gplain>
>>
>> Does this make it possible to use google as at least a read-only
>> news server?
>
> You might want to try `G w google RET group:gnu.emacs.gnus RET'.
> But because it is difficult to map article numbers to Message-ID, it
> is little possible to make them as permanent groups.
That commands gives an error:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Couldn't request group: No matching articles")
signal(error ("Couldn't request group: No matching articles"))
error("Couldn't request group: %s" "No matching articles")
gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group("m3bsgg2ci0.fsf" (nnweb "m3bsgg2ci0.fsf" (nnweb-search "group:gnu.emacs.gnus") (nnweb-type google) (nnweb-ephemeral-p t)) t (#<buffer *Group*> . group))
gnus-group-make-web-group(nil)
* call-interactively(gnus-group-make-web-group)
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I'm using the cvs version from about 10 minutes ago, with GNU Emacs
21.1.50.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2001-12-23 on seton
Cheers -
bw
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-29 23:28 Bill White
2001-12-30 6:12 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-12-31 5:21 ` Bill White [this message]
2002-01-01 7:03 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-01 20:30 ` Ami Fischman
2002-01-02 0:19 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-02 0:53 ` Ami Fischman
2002-01-02 1:07 ` Bill White
2002-01-02 1:43 ` Ian Jones
2002-01-02 2:23 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-02 14:51 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2002-01-02 0:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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