From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1725 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: get-new-news misbehaving? Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 23:30:52 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie 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 1138668412 12477 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:46:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:46:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:36 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: windlord.stanford.edu Original-X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1041492652 25755 171.64.13.23 (2 Jan 2003 07:30:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oOXy9II7wqo8wCwcrUA0m9Ssrt4= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1865 Original-Lines: 27 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1865 Tue Jan 17 17:29:36 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1725 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Harry Putnam writes: >> I hoped someone would know what it means when only LIST ACTIVE is >> performed instead of authentication. > Sounds like a misconfigured news server. > Try setting `nntp-server-list-active-group' to nil. Hm. I know something that might be related. The latest verison of INN, which I just released, fixed a bug whereby users who weren't allowed to read a group could still get article counts from LIST ACTIVE with the group name, even though with LIST ACTIVE without the group name, the group wouldn't appear. I wonder if Gnus wasn't using that loophole without intending to to get article numbers, and now when LIST ACTIVE is failing, Gnus isn't leaping to the conclusion that this is because of missing authentication. Harry, is the server running INN 2.3.4 or a recent STABLE snapshot? It looks like INN 2.3.4 may do something annoying like returning an empty list. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)