Re: How to get new news

[despen]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

R> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:10:08 -0400 despen@verizon.net wrote: 
>
> d> When I start GNUS, all my article counts are shown as "*".
>
> d> If I just type "g", nothing happens, the counts all stay as "*".
>
> d> If I type M-g the group under the cursor gets an un-read article count
> d> but the rest of the groups still show "*" in the article count.
>
> d> If I then type "g" all the groups get updated.
>
> d> What I would like to happen is hit one key and get ALL the article
> d> counts updated.
>
> `g' should work.  I've seen this issue with servers that can't be opened
> ocasionally.  Hit `^' before each step in the narrative above and see if
> the server is open or closed for one specific group.  I'm guessing
> you'll see it's closed until the `M-g' and then it's open.

I've used "g" before (in XEmacs) but ever since I started GNU Emacs 22.3.1
I've had problems.  It looks like I have to wait some amount of time
before I can recreate the problem, once I've gone thru the steps above,
"g" works as desired.

Anyway, if I use "^" before M-g the server buffer contains: 

     {nnfolder:archive} (opened)
     {nnmh:} (opened)
     {nntp:news.eternal-september.org} (opened) (agent)

The groups I'm trying to refresh are the eternal-september groups.
I think "agent" must be a default setting, I don't see that I've set
it anywhere.