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From: Bob Babcock <wssddc@gis.net>
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Subject: Re: emergency - cannot use gnus ;-(
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> Doing
> 
> (make-network-process "nntp" (get-buffer-create "nntp") "news.myisp.ch"
> 119)
> 
> I get an error message:
> 
> Eval error  Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> 
> What next?

I once had a similar problem which turned out to be caused by corruption of
one of the temporary files that gnus makes.  I think the fix for me was to
delete files in news/cache.  Sorry I don't remember the details, and I never
understood exactly what was going wrong.