Red Gnus workaround for certain nntp servers

Red Gnus workaround for certain nntp servers

[Steven L Baur]

Red Gnus feature tests for nntp server support are broken.  The way
this bug shows up is that all article counts for nntp groups have '*'s
instead of numbers.  This is because your server doesn't support `LIST
ACTIVE group' and Gnus doesn't know it.  You can bypass the buggy
check by putting:

(setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil)

in your .gnus.
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Re: Red Gnus workaround for certain nntp servers

[Michael Harnois]

Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> Red Gnus feature tests for nntp server support are broken.  The way
> this bug shows up is that all article counts for nntp groups have '*'s
> instead of numbers.  This is because your server doesn't support `LIST
> ACTIVE group' and Gnus doesn't know it.  You can bypass the buggy
> check by putting:
> 
> (setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil)
> 
> in your .gnus.

While the workaround does work, and it is what I have been doing, Lars
says I do not have a broken server ...

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Re: Red Gnus workaround for certain nntp servers

[Sten Drescher]

>>>>> Michael Harnois writes:

MH> Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>> Red Gnus feature tests for nntp server support are broken.  The way
>> this bug shows up is that all article counts for nntp groups have
>> '*'s instead of numbers.  This is because your server doesn't
>> support `LIST ACTIVE group' and Gnus doesn't know it.  You can
>> bypass the buggy check by putting:
>> 
>> (setq nntp-server-list-active-group nil)
>> 
>> in your .gnus.

MH> While the workaround does work, and it is what I have been doing,
MH> Lars says I do not have a broken server ...

	I'd have to agree with this.  I was seeing this behavior,
until I commented out (setq gnus-read-active-file 'some).  The fact
that it used to work in old Gnus and not in Red Gnus 0.39 makes me
think that it's the new algorithm.

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