From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5015 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: albrecht@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Albrecht Kadlec) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Sgnus 0.32 trashed my .newsrc.eld Date: 01 Feb 1996 19:24:31 +0100 Organization: TU Wien Sender: albrecht@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Albrecht Kadlec) Message-ID: Reply-To: albrecht@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Albrecht Kadlec) NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145677 31499 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:27:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:27:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from biggulp.callamer.com (root@biggulp.callamer.com [199.74.141.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA30704 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:24:28 -0800 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by biggulp.callamer.com (8.6.12/8.6.9-callamer-rdw080995) with ESMTP id LAA19252 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:23:57 -0800 Original-Received: from kodiak.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (kodiak.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.40.140]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 19:24:41 +0100 Original-Received: from anaphi.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at by kodiak.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at with esmtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0ti3gR-000TYIC; Thu, 1 Feb 96 19:24 MET Original-Received: by anaphi.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Smail3.1.29.1 #9) id m0ti3gQ-0000z9C; Thu, 1 Feb 96 19:24 MET Original-Sender: albrecht@anaphi.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Attribution: A Original-Lines: 37 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5015 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5015 subject says it all my .newsrc.eld looked like: ;; Gnus startup file. ;; Never delete this file - touch .newsrc instead to force Gnus ;; to read .newsrc. (setq gnus-newsrc-file-version ("a.bsu.programming" "a.bsu.talk" . . . lots of newsgroups (killed ones) . . . "alt.culture.alaska" "alt.culture.araab-league" "alt.culture.arab-league" "al"September Gnus v0.32") all this on the same line. the last one is somehow [:-)] offending gnus on the next startup (unbalanced quoutes and parenthesis) all the rest is ok: (setq gnus-newsrc-last-checked-date '"Thu Feb 1 15:05:12 1996") (setq gnus-newsrc-alist '(("gnu.emacs.gnus" 6 ((1 . 6448) (6450 . 6491) .... (setq gnus-killed-list '("a.bsu.programming" "a.bsu.talk" ... (setq gnus-zombie-list '("ut.ecf.student" "geometry.software.dynamic" .... (setq gnus-format-specs '((article-mode "Gnus: ..... well gnus doesn't barf if I delete the first list - yes that's not a bug fix, it just made all my groups reappear (including this one). I don't know what happened. Just wanted to know if somebody else had similar problems. cheers, albrecht