From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58480 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: getting ticked/dormant article without contacting news server Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:57:05 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <873c1jwn99.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095307061 1925 80.91.229.6 (16 Sep 2004 03:57:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:57:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7019@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 16 05:57:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C7nOl-0003SB-00 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 05:57:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C7nOf-0007Ig-00; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1C7nOb-0007IH-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:57:21 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1C7nOY-0007sq-Bs for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 974953A0027 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:57:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C7nOL-0005bG-00 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 05:57:05 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-69-33-218-34.chi.megapath.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1095307025 21502 69.33.218.34 (16 Sep 2004 03:57:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:57:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1oFGy3VrwVPAE5YrPcXEUQZ2a/c= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58480 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58480 Dan Christensen writes: > My news server has just disappeared. I'd like to be able to enter > my news groups and view the ticked and dormant articles, and copy > them to a mail group for future reference. > > I don't normally use the agent, but I tried going unplugged, and was > still unable to enter the group. The messages I got were: > > Retrieving newsgroup: comp.lang.python... > Opening nntp server on news... > Denied server > Opening nntp server on news...failed > gnus-select-newsgroup: Couldn't open server > > My *Server* buffer does show that the server is agentized: > > {nntp:news} (denied) (agent) > > I can use gnus-group-make-directory-group to view the cache > directory as a group, but it has no knowledge of which articles > are ticked and which are dormant, and probably also contains > other recent articles that I don't want to save. > > Any suggestions? Open the server buffer, switch your server from denied to offline. Kevin