From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23141 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: using the agent default category Date: 12 Jun 1999 03:53:02 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160930 435 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:42:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:42:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03862 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:58:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAB06113; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 20:55:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 11 Jun 1999 20:55:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA04883 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 20:55:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (bang.netfonds.no [195.1.89.231]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03664 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:54:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA06653; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 03:55:20 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Joanna Russ' _What Are We Fighting For?_ X-Now-Playing: Dif Juz's _Soundpool_: "Cs" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: lconrad@world.std.com's message of "18 Apr 1999 19:36:56 -0400" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070086 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.86) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ When I went online, and sais "J j J s", it looked like it was doing > things, and the group buffer said there were articles, but I was > unable to enter the group. The message said: > > Couldn't request group gnu.emacs.gnus: Opened server news.std.com using directo\ > > And instead of finding the rest of the message, I went into the > category buffer and edited the predicate of the default category to > "true", and after that things would work. Hm. Entering groups should only depend on whether there are headers in the group or not, and the predicate only affects whether articles are downloaded, so I don't understand this. But Agent startup issues haven't been tested all that much. I get the feeling that it basically doesn't work, but after restarting a few times and fiddling a bit it starts working, and people forget to file bug reports. Could a few of youse try to start using the agent "for the first time" -- perhaps out of a new, pristine account -- according to how the manual says it should be done, and see how things go? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen