From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/12260 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: More gnewb questions Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:44:46 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87ab4rhh75.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> References: <87my8skqme.fsf@bb.nothome.com> <87my8s836x.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87iqjf7tmk.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87eiu37rn2.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87y6sbpzh7.fsf@bb.nothome.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243888838 6049 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2009 20:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:40:38 +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 Jun 01 22:40:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MBEJ3-0007pC-5i for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55935 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MBEJ2-00054y-Hj for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!nuzba.szn.dk!news.koldfront.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: topper.koldfront.dk Original-X-Trace: virgil.koldfront.dk 1243885484 1947 192.168.1.160 (1 Jun 2009 19:44:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@koldfront.dk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:44:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97, Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:12260 Archived-At: On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:42:44 -0600, notbob@bb.nothome.com wrote: > You know what they say about assume. Any given text must make _some_ assumptions about the reader. Otherwise every text would have to start with describing what a keyboard and a monitor is... I guess the things you can assume have changed as the september rolled on :-) > "When Gnus starts, or indeed whenever it tries to determine whether > new articles have arrived, it reads the SERVER'S active file. > See. Not that hard. Indeed, thank you taking the time to come up with the suggestion. > I think what did it is, I manually created a .newsrc file and manually > entered the newsgroups I wanted. Seems to work perfectly. Sounds reasonable. > I think gnus was taking stuff from jed's .jnewsrc file, but don't > really know. (I don't think that is very likely.) > Now, to figure out the .authinfo file. Any emacs mechanism to create > it, or again, manually. If manual, what format with info? If examples people have posted here aren't sufficient, you can try looking here: * http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_167.html (found by searching for "site:gnus authinfo" on Google.) (Emacs is one big mechanism to create text-files! :-)) Best regards, Adam -- "Noone stops you Adam Sjøgren Like you stop yourself" asjo@koldfront.dk