This time Chris <chrisl_ak@hotmail.com> 
becomes daring and writes:

> [posted and mailed]
>
> on 01 Oct 2002, Ed <ed@telestoconsulting.com> spake thusly:
>
>> Howdy all!
>> 
>> I had been messing about with my .gnus file, and also upgraded to a
>> new version of emacs (20.2). All this is on a Windows 200 machine
>> (obviously I have emacs NT).
>> 
>> Somehow emacs stopped finding my .gnus file. I put all my gnus
>> initialization (and there is a lot) into my .emacs file, and
>> everything works fine. I move it back to my .gnus file and gnus
>> breaks. (Hangs trying to find NNTP server).
>
> Did you ever find an answer to this problem? I am having the same 
> problem...

  In your .emacs file add:

  (setq gnus-init-file "~/elisp/gnusrc.el")

  Pointing to the correct .gnus or whatever you want to call it.

  Vox

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