From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7964 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sten Drescher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Red Gnus workaround for certain nntp servers Date: 20 Sep 1996 17:39:15 -0500 Sender: stend@dogbert.tivoli.com Message-ID: References: <87ohjcvh0d.fsf@mharnois.sbt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148202 9362 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:10:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA23184 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 16:15:15 -0700 Original-Received: from tivoli.com (tivoli.tivoli.com [146.84.1.5]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 00:39:54 +0200 Original-Received: from dogbert.tivoli.com (dogbert.tivoli.com [146.84.111.8]) by tivoli.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-local-mods-ESMTP) with ESMTP id RAA04064 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: by dogbert.tivoli.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA19551; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:39:16 -0500 Original-To: Gnus Development In-Reply-To: Michael Harnois's message of 11 Sep 1996 17:11:46 -0500 Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.39/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7964 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7964 >>>>> Michael Harnois writes: MH> Steven L Baur 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. -- +---------------------- Tivoli Customer Support ----------------------+ | Sten Drescher Tivoli Systems, Inc | | email: sten.drescher@tivoli.com 9442 Capital of Texas Hwy North | | phone: (512) 794-9070 Arboretum Plaza One, Suite 500 | | fax : (512) 345-2784 Austin, Texas 78759 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+