Re: Gnus cannot describe all Quimby (news.gnus.org) groups (was: How can Gnus be configured with multiple NNTP servers?)

[Benjamin L. Russell]

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

> DekuDekuplex@Yahoo.com (Benjamin L. Russell) writes:
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
>> Thanks; I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one with this issue.
>>
>> Is this a bug, or part of the specification of GNU Emacs 23.3.1?  I
>> scoured the Internet for a way to add three NNTP servers in my
>> ~/.gnus.el file, but came up with nothing specific.
>
> It has nothing to do with that being your third nntp server.  I did some
> more testing and added news.gnus.org as my fourth nntp server.
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>              '(nntp "Quimby"
>                     (nntp-address "news.gnus.de")))
>
> Then I did M-x gnus-group-describe-all-groups RET and got:
>
>       [...]
>       *: nntp+Uni:cl.glauben.aberglauben Schwarze Katzen am Freitag den 13.
>       *: nntp+Quimby:         Has read
>       *: nntp+Gmane:gwene.com.feedburner.sysadvent 
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/sysadvent?format=xml (Moderated)
>       [...]
>
> That's the only entry for Quimby, and since there's no group listed and
> "Has read" doesn't look like a proper description, it looks like a
> server issue to me.

You added news.gnus.de, instead of news.gnus.org; are you sure that
those two NNTP addresses point to the same server?

-- Benjamin L. Russell
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