nnrss doesn't work at all for me.

nnrss doesn't work at all for me.

[David Carlton]

I'm using Gnus 5.10.6 (as distributed with XEmacs, where I'm using the
Fedora Core 2 RPMs for the latter).  The manual distributed with
XEmacs doesn't mention rss, but googling for 'gnus rss' turns up
<http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_193.html>.  The manual on that web
page claims to be for Gnus 5.10.2; frankly, I'm dubious about that.
So:

* Should I expect to be able to use nnrss with 5.10.6?  (And what Gnus
  version is the online manual for?)

Anyways, optimistically following the instructions listed on that web
page, I type 'B', then nnrss, then enter
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss.  It asks me if I want to download
extra categories.  If I answer 'n', I get an empty buffer.  If I
answer 'y', I get a buffer looking like this:

K      0: Business: general.CRM news
K      0: Business: general.Entrepreneur news
K      0: Business: general.Human resources news
K      0: Business: general.IP and patents news
K      0: Business: general.Job markets news
K      0: Business: general.Law news
...

Which isn't very useful.

Am I doing something wrong, does nnrss just not work with the version
of Gnus I'm using, or what?

Thanks,
David Carlton
carlton@bactrian.org

Re: nnrss doesn't work at all for me.

[Jesse Alama]

Hi David,

I had the same trouble (with Gnus, with documentation) when I wanted
to subscribe to some RSS groups.  My solution: in the *Group* buffer,
type `G R', then enter the URL.

Warm regards,



Jesse

PS I found this solution by talking to the friendly folks on #gnus on
irc://irc.freenode.net

David Carlton <carlton@bactrian.org> writes:

> I'm using Gnus 5.10.6 (as distributed with XEmacs, where I'm using the
> Fedora Core 2 RPMs for the latter).  The manual distributed with
> XEmacs doesn't mention rss, but googling for 'gnus rss' turns up
> <http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_193.html>.  The manual on that web
> page claims to be for Gnus 5.10.2; frankly, I'm dubious about that.
> So:
>
> * Should I expect to be able to use nnrss with 5.10.6?  (And what Gnus
>   version is the online manual for?)
>
> Anyways, optimistically following the instructions listed on that web
> page, I type 'B', then nnrss, then enter
> http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss.  It asks me if I want to download
> extra categories.  If I answer 'n', I get an empty buffer.  If I
> answer 'y', I get a buffer looking like this:
>
> K      0: Business: general.CRM news
> K      0: Business: general.Entrepreneur news
> K      0: Business: general.Human resources news
> K      0: Business: general.IP and patents news
> K      0: Business: general.Job markets news
> K      0: Business: general.Law news
> ...
>
> Which isn't very useful.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, does nnrss just not work with the version
> of Gnus I'm using, or what?



-- 
Jesse Alama | alama@stanford.edu | http://www.stanford.edu/~alama

Re: nnrss doesn't work at all for me.

[David Carlton]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:51:04 -0800, Jesse Alama <alama@stanford.edu> said:

> I had the same trouble (with Gnus, with documentation) when I wanted
> to subscribe to some RSS groups.  My solution: in the *Group* buffer,
> type `G R', then enter the URL.

Lovely!  I tried it out (shameless plug:
<http://www.bactrian.org/~carlton/blog/feed/rss2/>), and it worked
great.

David Carlton
carlton@bactrian.org