From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23817 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus does not show killed or zombie groups Date: 05 Jul 1999 05:52:21 +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 1035161482 4087 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:51:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:51:22 +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 AAA02973 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 00:17:45 -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 XAB00574; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:13:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 04 Jul 1999 23:14:29 -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 XAA29467 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:13:50 -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 AAA02851 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 00:12:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA06409; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 06:24:05 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Maureen F. McHugh's _China Mountain Zhang_ X-Now-Playing: Eurythmics's _1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: vvv@vvv.vsu.ru's message of "04 Jul 1999 14:21:11 +0400" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070092 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.92) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ Then i tried to subscribe to my local news server's groups. > But wgen i started gnus, it did not find/show any new newsgroups > on this server (i pressed `A z' and `A k' in a group buffer, but > it showed nothing). But the newsgroups were there! If i try to > subscribe manually to a newsgroup (`U'), then gnus does not show > the nntp backend, nor it shows possible newsgroups (when > completing an empty string). But if i, say, enter a newsgroup > like nntp:some.newsgroup, then gnus subscribes to it. Yes, you can always type in a full group name, even if Gnus doesn't know about it beforehand. > i was able to subscribe to the newsgroups by entering the server > buffer, and pressing enter on nntp:localhost server. But why > `A z' and `A k' do not work (and gnus does not find new > newsgroups)? I've just tried starting Gnus with no init files, and all the groups seem to get shown when I `A k'. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen