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Subject: Re: problem with cvs - gnus
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Giannis Georgalis <compile-sig@spam.com> writes:

> I have the following problem with the newest cvs version of
> emacs/gnus. When I try to run gnus I allways get this message "nntp
> (news.grnet.gr) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)" ...and ofcourse I
> can't read news (I can however read mail). Now, a build of the cvs
> version of emacs a week ago would result in the same error "some
> times". That is most of the times gnus worked fine. However GNU Emacs
> 21.2.1 with the included gnus (5.9.0) works fine (I'm posting now
> through it ;-)).
>
> I'm not sending my .gnus file, as gnus works fine on emacs-21.2.1.
> I've read one similar old article ... in which Kai suggested that the
> nntp server was down, ofcourse this is not the case here.

Hm.  What is gnus-select-method and gnus-secondary-select-methods,
depending on which one is news.grnet.gr?

What happens when you eval the following Lisp (eg from M-x ielm RET):

(open-network-stream "foo" (get-buffer-create "foobuf")
                           "news.grnet.gr" 119)

Line break for email only.

kai
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