On 2009-06-01, Adam Sjøgren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:11:39 GMT, notbob wrote: > >> I tried it and gnus doesn't work at all, now. > > Could you be a little more specific? What did you do, what did you > expect to happen and what happened?
Hmmm.... after trying it half a dozen times and getting everything from freezups to stall out dead, it worked perfectly. Go figure. (I'm not above operator error ;) > I'm sure suggestions for improvements/patches will be welcomed :-) If I learn how to fly this thing before I die of old age, I'll definitely contribute. ;) > It is something a news-server keeps, and maintains. "When Gnus starts, or indeed whenever it tries to determine whether new articles have arrived, it reads the active file. This is a very large file that lists all the active groups and articles on the server." See what I mean about vague? Didn't say active file was ON the server. "The active file can be rather Huge, so if you have a slow network, you can set gnus-read-active-file to nil to prevent Gnus from reading the active file." Talk about between the lines. >> Also, a ~/.gnus.el file has yet to be created. I gotta do it manually? > > Yes. OK. I did. Now what? > P.S. Please trim the quoted text, thanks :-) I usually do unless I think it's needed for context. nb _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
