Re: gnus error on news.motzarella.org: "Couldn't enter <group>"

[Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@nict.go.jp>]

Tom Rauchenwald <its.sec@gmx.net> writes:

> Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Hello all,
> [...]
>> I'm using Debian GNU/linux unstable with the standard Emacs21.4, as
>> well as the snapshots for X11 and GTK. All behave similarly in the
>> following case.
>>
>> All seemed to be going well, but I noticed that one group kept giving
>> me trouble:
>>
>> rec.aviation.military always had 0 articles, and I could not enter it
>> from the server buffer (below the output from *Messages*):
>>
> [...]
>>
>> If anyone has pointers, please let me know (if someone has an account
>> with motzarella please try and let me know the result. The admins seem
>> to be very capable and quick in response, so if someone wants to get
>> an account for the purposes of checking this, it should not take more
>> than a day round-trip for the request to be processes). I am loathe to
>> email motzarella since it is most likely that I misunderstand
>> something about gnus than that there is some setting error on their
>> side which causes gnus grief.
>
> I tried, same result. 
> I use a cvs-snapshot of Emacs:
> GNU Emacs 22.0.99.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.12) of
> 2007-05-08 on pacem, modified by Debian
> and Gnus from sid:
> No Gnus v0.6

Many thanks Tom, much appreciated.

> You could post to motzarella.newusers or motzarella.talk and ask there btw.

Ah, I forgot there would be local groups. Gah! Will report back, it
seems unlikely to me that this issue affects only one group.

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