From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27138 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Bugs in PGnus Date: 22 Nov 1999 10:43:39 +0100 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 1035164219 23049 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:36:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:36:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA29572 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 04:46:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAB15346; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 03:44:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 22 Nov 1999 03:44:49 -0600 (CST) 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 DAA09346 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 03:44:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA28692 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 04:44:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id KAA01509 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:43:40 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id KAA23901; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:43:39 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id KAA00801; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:43:39 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Brian May's message of "22 Nov 1999 11:51:12 +1100" Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) Emacs/20.4.90 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27138 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27138 Brian May writes: > 1. Pushing A R doesn't retrieve article numbers on my computer at > Uni. However it works fine at Home, with the same configuration, > except for a different news server (one that I administrate) and a > different .newsrc.eld file. (Lars implied that this shouldn't work at > all - weird - or perhaps I misunderstood him?). Perhaps the news server > here is giving bad index files or something - I don't particularly > trust it. It would be good if I could be more specific though, when > complaining to the administrator... Have you tried setting nntp-record-commands to t, then compare traces of the communication between Gnus and the NNTP server at uni and at home? > 2. As I already mentioned, threading often has problems, as messages > are put with the wrong thread. This seems to be because "Y c" > inserts cached articles at the *current* cursor position, and not in > thread order. Pushing "T t" on the broken thread fixes it. > > (I suspect this is only part of the threading problem, but I can > reproduce this bug... From memory I get similar problems without > pushing "Y c" but haven't yet reproduced it "on demand"). I also see this problem. Hm. But I use `/ *' rather than `Y c'. Is the behavior different? Why are there two commands? > 3. I get lots of ~/Mail/Incoming* files, which never seem to be > deleted. Perhaps this is to keep a backup in case things go wrong, > however I already do that via my .forward file. See mail-source-delete-incoming. This is indeed a safety net because this is an alpha version of Gnus. kai -- because I couldn't think of a good beginning.