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If you are having problems with Gnus not finding your server, you have
to set `gnus-select-method'.  A "method" is a way of specifying *how*
the news is to be found, and from *where*.

Say you want to read news from you local, friendly nntp server
"news.my.local.server". 

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.my.local.server"))

Quite easy, huh?

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmbox "")))

(The same for the other methods, kind of.)

You should also set `nnmail-split-methods' to something sensible: 

(setq nnmail-split-methods 
      '(("mail.junk" "From:.*Lars")
	("mail.misc "")))

This will put all mail from me in you junk mail group, and the rest in
"mail.misc". 

These groups will be subscribe the same way as the normal groups, so
you will probably find them among the zombie groups after you set
these variables and re-start Gnus.

From: [e-mail] (ding)
Date: Fri Feb 24 13:40:45 1995
Subject: Foreign newsgroups
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

These are groups that do not come from `gnus-select-method'. 

Say you want to read "alt.furniture.couches" from "news.funet.fi".  You
can then either type `B news.funet.fi <RET>' to browse that server and
subscribe to that group, or you can type 
`G m alt.furniture.couches<RET>nntp<RET>news.funet.fi<RET>', if you
like to type a lot.

If you want to read a directory as a newsgroup, you can create an
nndir group, much the same way.  There's a shorthand for that,

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Gnus really isn't GNUS, even though it looks like it.  If you scrape
the surface, you'll find that most things have changed.

This means that old code that relies on GNUS internals will fail.  

In particular, `gnus-newsrc-hashtb', `gnus-newsrc-assoc',
`gnus-killed-list', the `nntp-header-' macros and the display formats
have all changed.  If you have some code lying around that depend on
these, or change these, you'll have to re-write your code.

There is absolutely no chance, whatsoever, of getting Gnus to work
with Emacs 18.  It won't even work on Emacsen older than Emacs
19.30/XEmacs 19.13.  Upgrade your Emacs or die.

	
From lars Thu Feb 23 23:20:38 1995
From: [e-mail] (ding)
Date: Fri Feb 24 13:40:45 1995
Subject: How do I re-scan my mail groups?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

`M-a my.virtual.newsgroup<RET>nnvirtual<RET>^rec\.aquaria\.*<RET>'

This will create the group "nnvirtual:my.virtual.newsgroup", which
will collect all articles from all the groups in the "rec.aquaria"
hierarchy.  

If you want to edit the regular expression, just type `M-e' on the
group line.

Note that all the groups that are part of the virtual group have to be

If you only want this in virtual groups, you could say something along
the lines of:

(setq gnus-select-group-hook
      (lambda ()
  	(if (eq 'nnvirtual (car (gnus-find-method-for-group 
	                          gnus-newsgroup-name)))
	    (progn
	      (make-local-variable 'gnus-thread-sort-functions)
	      (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-date))))))

version.  If the bug persists, please re-submit your bug report.

When a bug occurs, I need a recipe for how to trigger the bug.  You
have to tell me exactly what you do to uncover the bug, and you should
(setq debug-on-error t) and send me the backtrace along with the bug
report.  

If I am not able to reproduce the bug, I won't be able to fix it.

I would, of course, prefer that you locate the bug, fix it, and mail
me the patches, but one can't have everything.

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If you are having problems with Gnus not finding your server, you have
to set `gnus-select-method'.  A "method" is a way of specifying *how*
the news is to be found, and from *where*.

Say you want to read news from you local, friendly nntp server
"news.my.local.server".

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.my.local.server"))

Quite easy, huh?

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmbox "")))

(The same for the other methods, kind of.)

You should also set `nnmail-split-methods' to something sensible:

(setq nnmail-split-methods
      '(("mail.junk" "From:.*Lars")
	("mail.misc "")))

This will put all mail from me in you junk mail group, and the rest in
"mail.misc".

These groups will be subscribe the same way as the normal groups, so
you will probably find them among the zombie groups after you set
these variables and re-start Gnus.

From: [e-mail] (ding)
Date: Fri Feb 24 13:40:45 1995
Subject: Foreign newsgroups
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

These are groups that do not come from `gnus-select-method'.

Say you want to read "alt.furniture.couches" from "news.funet.fi".  You
can then either type `B news.funet.fi <RET>' to browse that server and
subscribe to that group, or you can type
`G m alt.furniture.couches<RET>nntp<RET>news.funet.fi<RET>', if you
like to type a lot.

If you want to read a directory as a newsgroup, you can create an
nndir group, much the same way.  There's a shorthand for that,

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Gnus really isn't GNUS, even though it looks like it.  If you scrape
the surface, you'll find that most things have changed.

This means that old code that relies on GNUS internals will fail.

In particular, `gnus-newsrc-hashtb', `gnus-newsrc-assoc',
`gnus-killed-list', the `nntp-header-' macros and the display formats
have all changed.  If you have some code lying around that depend on
these, or change these, you'll have to re-write your code.

There is absolutely no chance, whatsoever, of getting Gnus to work
with Emacs 18.  It won't even work on Emacsen older than Emacs
19.30/XEmacs 19.13.  Upgrade your Emacs or die.


From lars Thu Feb 23 23:20:38 1995
From: [e-mail] (ding)
Date: Fri Feb 24 13:40:45 1995
Subject: How do I re-scan my mail groups?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

`M-a my.virtual.newsgroup<RET>nnvirtual<RET>^rec\.aquaria\.*<RET>'

This will create the group "nnvirtual:my.virtual.newsgroup", which
will collect all articles from all the groups in the "rec.aquaria"
hierarchy.

If you want to edit the regular expression, just type `M-e' on the
group line.

Note that all the groups that are part of the virtual group have to be

If you only want this in virtual groups, you could say something along
the lines of:

(setq gnus-select-group-hook
      (lambda ()
  	(if (eq 'nnvirtual (car (gnus-find-method-for-group
	                          gnus-newsgroup-name)))
	    (progn
	      (make-local-variable 'gnus-thread-sort-functions)
	      (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-date))))))

version.  If the bug persists, please re-submit your bug report.

When a bug occurs, I need a recipe for how to trigger the bug.  You
have to tell me exactly what you do to uncover the bug, and you should
(setq debug-on-error t) and send me the backtrace along with the bug
report.

If I am not able to reproduce the bug, I won't be able to fix it.

I would, of course, prefer that you locate the bug, fix it, and mail
me the patches, but one can't have everything.