From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29280 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emerick Rogul Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problem fetching parent article Date: 21 Feb 2000 19:22:47 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87itzijkcf-cos-mos@localhost.localnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165976 1825 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:06:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:06:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3807D051E for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:23:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB12744; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:23:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:22:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA24994 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:22:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from cs.bu.edu (CS.BU.EDU [128.197.10.2]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6C8D051E for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:22:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from csa.bu.edu (csa [128.197.12.3]) by cs.bu.edu (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8/(BU-S-10/16/98-v1.0a)) with ESMTP id TAA14107 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:22:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from emerick@localhost) by csa.bu.edu (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5/(BU-C-02/10/97-v1.0)) id TAA15492; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:22:47 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: csa.bu.edu: emerick set sender to emerick@csa.bu.edu using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Slawek Zak's message of "21 Feb 2000 22:50:56 +0100" Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29280 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29280 Slawek Zak writes: : Emerick Rogul writes: :: Hello, :: :: I've always used '^' in gnus to fetch a parent article, but I've :: recently noticed it's not working correctly (I'm using the latest gnus :: from cvs - 5.8.4). :: :: I went into a newsgroup today and hit ^ to fetch the parent article :: and I got the "Can't fetch article ..." message. I left the group and :: and re-entered it to see all of the old messages, and the parent :: article was in fact still available (and hitting ^ at this point did :: do the right thing, btw). :: :: Is this a bug with the current version or have I done something silly :: in my init files? Anyone else run into anything like this? : Try (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some). It didn't work for me : either before I used this setting. Hmm...I just tried setting that value and I got the same behavior (can't fetch a parent news article even though I _know_ it hasn't expired yet). On a whim, I tried running gnus (5.8.4) without any of my config files loaded and it's also exhibiting this weird behavior. Bug perhaps? (No, never!... ;-) -Emerick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerick Rogul /\/ "how young are you, how old am i? emerick@cs.bu.edu /\/ let's count the rings around my eyes." ------------------------------------------------- 'i will dare', the mats