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Re: Emacs (was: Re: Eudora bug rears its ugly head again)
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Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:53:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
[...] When Gnus tries to download the unread LUGNET articles
in offline mode, I sometimes get the error message "strange nov line"
and sometimes the connection simply stops.  I haven't reported this
(yet) because it's all too vague.  I would like to have some more
information about what's failing, but it's hard to pinpoint.  Has
anybody else noticed anything similar?

I haven't seen that, but I wonder if what Emacs means by "nov line" is "news
overview line"?  (That would make sense too, if it croaks while fetching new
articles.)

Does it tell you which group it's downloading while it's doing that?  If I
knew what group or groups gave you trouble, I might be able to discover
something "odd-looking" in the overview file for that group.  Obviously, if
it you aren't able to tell precisely which article it died on, however, then
a smaller group (i.e., one with fewer messages) would be more helpful to
inspect from the inside than a larger group.

--Todd



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  Re: Emacs (was: Re: Eudora bug rears its ugly head again)
 
(...) Yep, "nov line" is definitively news overview line". (...) It normally happens while downloading the unread messages in some large group. I've tried to manually telnet to the NNTP server to retrieve the nov lines, but I found nothing (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Emacs (was: Re: Eudora bug rears its ugly head again)
 
(...) Do you mean the (somewhat oldish) RMAIL mail reader in Emacs or the full news/mail reader Gnus? I find that Emacs/Gnus is great for reading LUGNET news groups off the NNTP server. I don't use the mail/news gateway, as I prefer not to have my (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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