Re: How can Gnus be configured with multiple NNTP servers?

[Benjamin L. Russell]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

Hi Tassilo,

> DekuDekuplex@Yahoo.com (Benjamin L. Russell) writes:
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
>> I need to set up Gnus to use the following three NNTP servers:
>>
>>> news20.forteinc.com
>>> news.gmane.org
>>> news.gnus.org
>>
>> Of these three, news20.forteinc.com requires a username and password,
>> which I have set up on my ~/.authinfo file, as follows:
>>
>>> machine news20.forteinc.com login <username> password <password>
>
> Looks good.
>
>> The other two NNTP servers do not require a username or password.
>>
>> Currently, I have the following setup in my ~/.gnus.el file:
>>
>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news20.forteinc.com"))
>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
>> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.gnus.org"))
>
> Looks good as well.
>
>> For some reason, I am able to subscribe to new newsgroups successfully
>> using the "Describe all groups" function only in the first two
>> servers, but not in the third.
>
> Do you see the last server listed in the *Server* buffer, and if so,
> what's its state?  (To get to the *Server* buffer hit ^ in *Group*.)

The state is as follows:

>      {nntp:news.gnus.org} (opened) (agent)

(I had to add an agent in the *Server* buffer after adding the server
name itself in the *Server* buffer; specifying it in my ~/.gnus.el file
was insufficient.)

However, when I run the "Describe all groups..." command, for some
reason, I do not see the gnus.gnus-bug newsgroup (to which I have
subscribed) listed after the news.gnus.org server, where it should be.
However, I see one blank line listed after that server (after the colon
(':') character), and a number of other newsgroups listed after that
server on different lines, as well as such newsgroups as
gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe listed after their other respective servers
(news.gmane.org, in this case).

Why doesn't gnus.gnus-bug appear in this list?

Bye,
Benjamin
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