From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/449 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Using giganews, "g" doesn't update message counts Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:38:17 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667419 6962 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:36 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer2.newshosting.com!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!bin8.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Sender: dane@bgp488938bgs.summit01.nj.comcast.net Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 18:38:17 CDT Original-X-Trace: sv3-XSO8x1pypcxjNSB6zA4Vm9NMQDACQPAsLoLahlncxGqkCRJnMAKP+DsogCy06nJy4e4gjCXiy+jq/ib!BSt8aPCuw/lhXTxigtOi0j/8zEuVCX+troi1/G4jX32SVYQ/0IgeYQvW3UA8afDMW4IzYTcuR2IE!0bls Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:589 Original-Lines: 51 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 589 Tue Jan 17 17:27:36 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:449 Archived-At: Dan Espen writes: > Dan Espen writes: > > > those who know me have no need of my name writes: > > > > > divulged: > > > >those who know me have no need of my name writes: > > > >> divulged: > > > > > > >> >My cable provider recently switched me to Giganews > > > >> > > > >> when they did that did you follow the steps outlined in the `changing > > > >> servers' node of the manual? if not your problem likely stems from the > > > >> different article numbering. > > > > > > > >No, its not message renumbering, I suspected I'd have a problem > > > >with message numbers so I deleted my .newsrc.eld and started over. > > > > > > did you remove .newsrc too? (gnus will use it if the .eld file is > > > missing.) > > > > Yes, I removed both. ... > Kai suggests: > > > > My guess is that my login is timing out and plain "g" isn't enough > > > to get gnus to login in. > > > > Does it help to kill the corresponding server buffer? It might be > > named " *nntpd*" or " *server foo*". Note the leading space in the > > buffer name. You can use C-x k to kill the buffer. Killing the buffers didn't help. > It might help, I'll try it when my connection times out, but > obviously, I shouldn't have to do that. > > Scott G observes: > > > > When I enter L, I see all my groups, but the unread counts are zero. > > > Its only after I read a message in a group with messages, then exit > > > that group to go back to the group buffer, and then press "g" that > > > all the other groups show unread messages. > > > > I have a similar problem, which I can usually fix by going to each > > group and hitting M-g on it. Does that help for you? > > I'll try that too, but it doesn't sound like the right solution either. That works. It doesn't seem very user friendly, but it does do the job.