From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1915 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Marshall Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Making old agent news available again Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:34:01 +0000 Organization: The first against the wall Message-ID: Reply-To: robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668537 13174 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:48:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:53 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!news.tiscali.fr!proxad.net!proxad.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-win.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Home-Page: http://www.chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.090012 (Oort Gnus v0.12) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QTk2LQjo5d1cyvxn9e9+xIc8ndE= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.104.252.151 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com Original-X-Trace: newsfep4-win.server.ntli.net 1043095447 213.104.252.151 (Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:44:07 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:44:07 GMT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2055 Original-Lines: 32 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2055 Tue Jan 17 17:29:53 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1915 Archived-At: (running Oort v0.12) Before I ran leafnode, I used gnus-agent and have a fair number of articles still in ~/News/agent/nntp/, until a few Oorts ago I used to be able to access them but the way now seems barred :-( The agent server is news.freeserve.net and oort appears to want to connect to that server before allowing me to look at the group - as I don't use that newserver now its a bit tricky! it appears to complain even if I'm running unplugged I've tried both (gnus-agentize) and (setq gnus-agent t) I eventually got in by making sure that if I was using the .newsrc that applied to the agent database, I used the gnus that came with emacs (5.9) rather than Oort An unconnected question on agent: before I set gnus-agent to nil _when accessing my localhost_, leafnode server I acquired a 20meg ~/News/agent/nntp/localhost tree consisting entirely of .agentview and .overview files, should I blow away the hierarchy or do I need to run gnus-agent-expire sometimes? presumably setting gnus-agent to t before attempting it? Robert -- Take me to the world A world that smiles With streets instead of aisles