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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: read-active-file some
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Vinnie Shelton  <shelton@icd.teradyne.com> writes:

> What is the problem with having gnus-read-active-file equal to 'some?
> This stopped working somewhere along the line in rgnus, and it
> doesn't work in 0.52, at least for me, under XEmacs 19.14.

I would appreciate it if somebody could take a look at this code in
nntp.el.  It apparently doesn't work for quite a lot of people, but I
have so far been unable to reproduce or fix the bug.  The functions to
peek at are `nntp-retrieve-groups' and `nntp-try-list-active'. 

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