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Subject: Re: Unable to create Dejanews nnweb groups
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"Rene H. Larsen" <rhl@traceroute.dk> writes:

> I can certainly sympathise with that in the general case.  The reason
> I was looking for a way to make Gnus query whether to try Deja is that
> I have an intermittent Internet connection, and there is no easy way
> to tell if the Internet connection is up.  I don't want Gnus to try
> and contact Deja when the connection is down, but I would like to have
> the option to do so when the connection is up.

In that case, I'd suggest fiddling with `gnus-refer-article-method' in
`gnus-agent-unplugged-hook'.

> I did try mocking around with gnus-refer-article-method, and using the
> example from the Info documentation, namely
> 
>      (setq gnus-refer-article-method
>            '(current
>              (nnweb "refer" (nnweb-type dejanews))))
> 
> does not seem to work correctly.

Yup.  Fix in Gnus v5.8.3.

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