On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:42:44 -0600, [email protected] wrote: > You know what they say about assume.
Any given text must make _some_ assumptions about the reader. Otherwise every text would have to start with describing what a keyboard and a monitor is... I guess the things you can assume have changed as the september rolled on :-) > "When Gnus starts, or indeed whenever it tries to determine whether > new articles have arrived, it reads the SERVER'S active file. > See. Not that hard. Indeed, thank you taking the time to come up with the suggestion. > I think what did it is, I manually created a .newsrc file and manually > entered the newsgroups I wanted. Seems to work perfectly. Sounds reasonable. > I think gnus was taking stuff from jed's .jnewsrc file, but don't > really know. (I don't think that is very likely.) > Now, to figure out the .authinfo file. Any emacs mechanism to create > it, or again, manually. If manual, what format with info? If examples people have posted here aren't sufficient, you can try looking here: * http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_167.html (found by searching for "site:gnus authinfo" on Google.) (Emacs is one big mechanism to create text-files! :-)) Best regards, Adam -- "Noone stops you Adam Sjøgren Like you stop yourself" [email protected] _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
