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Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org> writes:

> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>   intern-soft(nil [0 nntp+news\.speakeasy\.net:rec\.music\.early nnml+private:websurf nnml+private:linart 0 0 nnml+private:sunny 0 0 nnml+private:pilot-unix 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 nnml+private:abcdiscuss comp\.lang\.python 0 nntp+news-east\.speakeasy\.net:rec\.humor\.funny nntp+news\.speakeasy\.net:rec\.humor\.funny nnml+private:wwwacct alt\.binaries\.vcd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 nnml+private:world\.old 0 0 comp\.sys\.palmtops\.pilot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 nnml+private:woyp])
>   gnus-group-highlight-line()

So it's trying to intern nil into the newsrc hash table.  This
suggests to me that there's something buggy in the .newsrc.eld file.
Is there a "nil" group entry in there?

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