From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16865 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hume Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Accessing cached articles without an active internet connection Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:26:13 +0100 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: <7zd2g1o4q2.fsf@example.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398699015 11906 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2014 15:30:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:30:15 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 17:30:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WenVR-0002Q2-CZ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:30:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WenVR-0002Gb-0t for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:30:09 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.eclipse.net.uk!news.eclipse.net.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:26:39 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Hwt3zQ3dJBW6Q2k6jTbnfOQ+ZO4= Original-Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.168.48.70 Original-X-Trace: sv3-npZjPGX/QmNe4+dfXp882nageLPxl9YxWvS/lpXwE0yZAYGl6npZwUOr0SHXC1vRrkZoTHhvoPY1+PP!ed1rQ3iPthel4tvJ3pcPQK6HRXTC9DBtkhGCLrhzsbyJKLQB9ZPLqimJ0xqfIgUe8q4= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2347 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:87993 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Gmane-Expiry: 2014-05-12 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16865 Archived-At: Alexander Baier writes: > Hello, > > This is the general functionality I am trying to achieve: > > In a nntp-group (usually gmane) I want to save few articles in such a > way that I can access these later even when gnus can't connect to the > server said group is on. > > I found (info "(Gnus) Persistent Articles") to sound like something > really close to what I want to have. Marking articles with `*' stores > them in ~/News/cache/group.name and selecting such an article from > inside a group is significantly faster as doing so with a non-cached > article. Thus gnus really uses these cached articles. > > Trying to open a group with cached articles inside while being offline > fails with something like the following: > > "Opening nntp server on news.gmane.org...failed: >>> (error > news.gmane.org/nntp Name or service not known)" > > Is there a way to enter this group despite not having an active > connection to the server? I only want to see articles that have been > cached (ergo reside locally on disk) anyway. > > Any pointers are greatly appreciated. > > Regards, I managed to do this by selecting "read folder as a group" from the menu and then selecting "News/cache.." as the folder.