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-@c Insert "\input texinfo" at 1st line before texing this file alone.
-@c -*-texinfo-*-
-@c Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-@setfilename gnus-faq.info
-
-@node Frequently Asked Questions
-@section Frequently Asked Questions
-
-This is the Gnus Frequently Asked Questions list.
-If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at
-@file{http://www.ccs.neu.edu/software/contrib/gnus/}, and has
-probably been updated since you got this manual.
-
-@menu
-* Installation FAQ:: Installation of Gnus.
-* Customization FAQ:: Customizing Gnus.
-* Reading News FAQ:: News Reading Questions.
-* Reading Mail FAQ:: Mail Reading Questions.
-@end menu
-
-
-@node Installation FAQ
-@subsection Installation
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Q1.1 What is the latest version of Gnus?
-
-The latest (and greatest) version is 5.0.10. You might also run
-across something called @emph{September Gnus}. September Gnus
-is the alpha version of the next major release of Gnus. It is currently
-not stable enough to run unless you are prepared to debug lisp.
-
-@item
-Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
-
-Any of the following locations:
-
-@itemize @minus
-@item
-@file{ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/gnus/gnus.tar.gz}
-
-@item
-@file{ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/}
-
-@item
-@file{gopher://gopher.pilgrim.umass.edu/11/pub/misc/ding/}
-
-@item
-@file{ftp://aphrodite.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/pub/ding-gnus/}
-
-@item
-@file{ftp://ftp.solace.mh.se:/pub/gnu/elisp/}
-
-@end itemize
-
-@item
-Q1.3 Which version of Emacs do I need?
-
-At least GNU Emacs 19.28, or XEmacs 19.12 is recommended. GNU Emacs
-19.25 has been reported to work under certain circumstances, but it
-doesn't @emph{officially} work on it. 19.27 has also been reported to
-work. Gnus has been reported to work under OS/2 as well as Unix.
-
-
-@item
-Q1.4 Where is timezone.el?
-
-Upgrade to XEmacs 19.13. In earlier versions of XEmacs this file was
-placed with Gnus 4.1.3, but that has been corrected.
-
-
-@item
-Q1.5 When I run Gnus on XEmacs 19.13 I get weird error messages.
-
-You're running an old version of Gnus. Upgrade to at least version
-5.0.4.
-
-
-@item
-Q1.6 How do I unsubscribe from the Mailing List?
-
-Send an e-mail message to @file{ding-request@@ifi.uio.no} with the magic word
-@emph{unsubscribe} somewhere in it, and you will be removed.
-
-If you are reading the digest version of the list, send an e-mail message
-to @*
-@file{ding-rn-digests-d-request@@moe.shore.net}
-with @emph{unsubscribe} as the subject and you will be removed.
-
-
-@item
-Q1.7 How do I run Gnus on both Emacs and XEmacs?
-
-The basic answer is to byte-compile under XEmacs, and then you can
-run under either Emacsen. There is, however, a potential version
-problem with easymenu.el with Gnu Emacs prior to 19.29.
-
-Per Abrahamsen <abraham@@dina.kvl.dk> writes :@*
-The internal easymenu.el interface changed between 19.28 and 19.29 in
-order to make it possible to create byte compiled files that can be
-shared between Gnu Emacs and XEmacs. The change is upward
-compatible, but not downward compatible.
-This gives the following compatibility table:
-
-@example
-Compiled with: | Can be used with:
-----------------+--------------------------------------
-19.28 | 19.28 19.29
-19.29 | 19.29 XEmacs
-XEmacs | 19.29 XEmacs
-@end example
-
-If you have Gnu Emacs 19.28 or earlier, or XEmacs 19.12 or earlier, get
-a recent version of auc-menu.el from
-@file{ftp://ftp.iesd.auc.dk/pub/emacs-lisp/auc-menu.el}, and install it
-under the name easymenu.el somewhere early in your load path.
-
-
-@item
-Q1.8 What resources are available?
-
-There is the newsgroup Gnu.emacs.gnus. Discussion of Gnus 5.x is now
-taking place there. There is also a mailing list, send mail to
-@file{ding-request@@ifi.uio.no} with the magic word @emph{subscribe}
-somewhere in it.
-
-@emph{NOTE:} the traffic on this list is heavy so you may not want to be
-on it (unless you use Gnus as your mailer reader, that is). The mailing
-list is mainly for developers and testers.
-
-Gnus has a home World Wide Web page at@*
-@file{http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding.html}.
-
-Gnus has a write up in the X Windows Applications FAQ at@*
-@file{http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/xapps/Q-III.html}.
-
-The Gnus manual is also available on the World Wide Web. The canonical
-source is in Norway at@*
-@file{http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding-manual/gnus_toc.html}.
-
-There are three mirrors in the United States:
-@enumerate
-@item
-@file{http://www.miranova.com/gnus-man/}
-
-@item
-@file{http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/manual/gnus_toc.html}
-
-@item
-@file{http://www.rtd.com/~woo/gnus/}
-
-@end enumerate
-
-PostScript copies of the Gnus Reference card are available from@*
-@file{ftp://ftp.cs.ualberta.ca/pub/oolog/gnus/}. They are mirrored at@*
-@file{ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/refcard/} in the
-United States. And@*
-@file{ftp://marvin.fkphy.uni-duesseldorf.de/pub/gnus/}
-in Germany.
-
-An online version of the Gnus FAQ is available at@*
-@file{http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html}. Off-line formats
-are also available:@*
-ASCII: @file{ftp://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/gnus-faq}@*
-PostScript: @file{ftp://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/gnus-faq.ps}.
-
-
-@item
-Q1.9 Gnus hangs on connecting to NNTP server
-
-I am running XEmacs on SunOS and Gnus prints a message about Connecting
-to NNTP server and then just hangs.
-
-Ben Wing <wing@@netcom.com> writes :@*
-I wonder if you're hitting the infamous @emph{libresolv} problem.
-The basic problem is that under SunOS you can compile either
-with DNS or NIS name lookup libraries but not both. Try
-substituting the IP address and see if that works; if so, you
-need to download the sources and recompile.
-
-
-@item
-Q1.10 Mailcrypt 3.4 doesn't work
-
-This problem is verified to still exist in Gnus 5.0.9 and Mailcrypt 3.4.
-The answer comes from Peter Arius
-<arius@@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>.
-
-I found out that mailcrypt uses
-@code{gnus-eval-in-buffer-window}, which is a macro.
-It seems as if you have
-compiled mailcrypt with plain old GNUS in load path, and the XEmacs byte
-compiler has inserted that macro definition into
-@file{mc-toplev.elc}.
-The solution is to recompile @file{mc-toplev.el} with Gnus 5 in
-load-path, and it works fine.
-
-Steve Baur <steve@@miranova.com> adds :@*
-The problem also manifests itself if neither GNUS 4 nor Gnus 5 is in the
-load-path.
-
-
-@item
-Q1.11 What other packages work with Gnus?
-
-@itemize @minus
-@item
-Mailcrypt.
-
-Mailcrypt is an Emacs interface to PGP. It works, it installs
-without hassle, and integrates very easily. Mailcrypt can be
-obtained from@*
-@file{ftp://cag.lcs.mit.edu/pub/patl/mailcrypt-3.4.tar.gz}.
-
-@item
-Tools for Mime.
-
-Tools for Mime is an Emacs MUA interface to MIME. Installation is
-a two-step process unlike most other packages, so you should
-be prepared to move the byte-compiled code somewhere. There
-are currently two versions of this package available. It can
-be obtained from@*
-@file{ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/}.
-Be sure to apply the supplied patch. It works with Gnus through
-version 5.0.9. In order for all dependencies to work correctly
-the load sequence is as follows:
-@lisp
- (load "tm-setup")
- (load "gnus")
- (load "mime-compose")
-@end lisp
-
-@emph{NOTE:} Loading the package disables citation highlighting by
-default. To get the old behavior back, use the @kbd{M-t} command.
-
-@end itemize
-
-@end itemize
-
-
-@node Customization FAQ
-@subsection Customization
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Q2.1 Custom Edit does not work under XEmacs
-
-The custom package has not been ported to XEmacs.
-
-
-@item
-Q2.2 How do I quote messages?
-
-I see lots of messages with quoted material in them. I am wondering
-how to have Gnus do it for me.
-
-This is Gnus, so there are a number of ways of doing this. You can use
-the built-in commands to do this. There are the @kbd{F} and @kbd{R}
-keys from the summary buffer which automatically include the article
-being responded to. These commands are also selectable as @i{Followup
-and Yank} and @i{Reply and Yank} in the Post menu.
-
-@kbd{C-c C-y} grabs the previous message and prefixes each line with
-@code{ail-indentation-spaces} spaces or @code{mail-yank-prefix} if that is
-non-nil, unless you have set your own @code{mail-citation-hook}, which will
-be called to do the job.
-
-You might also consider the Supercite package, which allows for pretty
-arbitrarily complex quoting styles. Some people love it, some people
-hate it.
-
-
-@item
-Q2.3 How can I keep my nnvirtual:* groups sorted?
-
-How can I most efficiently arrange matters so as to keep my nnvirtual:*
-(etc) groups at the top of my group selection buffer, whilst keeping
-everything sorted in alphabetical order.
-
-If you don't subscribe often to new groups then the easiest way is to
-first sort the groups and then manually kill and yank the virtuals
-wherever you want them.
-
-
-@item
-Q2.4 Any good suggestions on stuff for an all.SCORE file?
-
-Here is a collection of suggestions from the Gnus mailing list.
-
-@enumerate
-@item
-From ``Dave Disser'' <disser@@sdd.hp.com>@*
-I like blasting anything without lowercase letters. Weeds out most of
-the make $$ fast, as well as the lame titles like ``IBM'' and ``HP-UX''
-with no further description.
-@lisp
- (("Subject"
- ("^\\(Re: \\)?[^a-z]*$" -200 nil R)))
-@end lisp
-
-@item
-From ``Peter Arius'' <arius@@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>@*
-The most vital entries in my (still young) all.SCORE:
-@lisp
-(("xref"
- ("alt.fan.oj-simpson" -1000 nil s))
- ("subject"
- (concat "\\<\\(make\\|fast\\|big\\)\\s-*"
- "\\(money\\|cash\\|bucks?\\)\\>"
- -1000 nil r)
- ("$$$$" -1000 nil s)))
-@end lisp
-
-@item
-From ``Per Abrahamsen'' <abraham@@dina.kvl.dk>@*
-@lisp
-(("subject"
- ;; CAPS OF THE WORLD, UNITE
- ("^..[^a-z]+$" -1 nil R)
- ;; $$$ Make Money $$$ (Try work)
- ("$" -1 nil s)
- ;; I'm important! And I have exclamation marks to prove it!
- ("!" -1 nil s)))
-@end lisp
-
-@item
-From ``heddy boubaker'' <boubaker@@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr>@*
-I would like to contribute with mine.
-@lisp
-(
- (read-only t)
- ("subject"
- ;; ALL CAPS SUBJECTS
- ("^\\([Rr][Ee]: +\\)?[^a-z]+$" -1 nil R)
- ;; $$$ Make Money $$$
- ("$$" -10 nil s)
- ;; Empty subjects are worthless!
- ("^ *\\([(<]none[>)]\\|(no subject\\( given\\)?)\\)? *$"
- -10 nil r)
- ;; Sometimes interesting announces occur!
- ("ANN?OU?NC\\(E\\|ING\\)" +10 nil r)
- ;; Some people think they're on mailing lists
- ("\\(un\\)?sub?scribe" -100 nil r)
- ;; Stop Micro$oft NOW!!
- ;; ("concat" used to avoid overfull box.)
- (concat "\\(m\\(icro\\)?[s$]\\(oft\\|lot\\)?-?\\)?"
- "wind?\\(ows\\|aube\\|oze\\)?[- ]*"
- "\\('?95\\|NT\\|3[.]1\\|32\\)" -1001 nil r)
- ;; I've nothing to buy
- ("\\(for\\|4\\)[- ]*sale" -100 nil r)
- ;; SELF-DISCIPLINED people
- ("\\[[^a-z0-9 \t\n][^a-z0-9 \t\n]\\]" +100 nil r)
- )
- ("from"
- ;; To keep track of posters from my site
- (".dgac.fr" +1000 nil s))
- ("followup"
- ;; Keep track of answers to my posts
- ("boubaker" +1000 nil s))
- ("lines"
- ;; Some people have really nothing to say!!
- (1 -10 nil <=))
- (mark -100)
- (expunge -1000)
- )
-@end lisp
-
-@item
-From ``Christopher Jones'' <cjones@@au.oracle.com>@*
-The sample @file{all.SCORE} files from Per and boubaker could be
-augmented with:
-@lisp
- (("subject"
- ;; No junk mail please!
- ("please ignore" -500 nil s)
- ("test" -500 nil e))
- )
-@end lisp
-
-@item
-From ``Brian Edmonds'' <edmonds@@cs.ubc.ca>@*
-Augment any of the above with a fast method of scoring down
-excessively cross posted articles.
-@lisp
- ("xref"
- ;; the more cross posting, the exponentially worse the article
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -1 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -2 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -4 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -8 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+"
- -16 nil r)
- (concat "^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+"
- " \\S-+ \\S-+"
- -32 nil r)
- (concat "^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+"
- " \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -64 nil r)
- (concat "^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+"
- " \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -128 nil r)
- (concat "^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+"
- " \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -256 nil r)
- (concat "^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+"
- " \\S-+" \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -512 nil r))
-@end lisp
-
-@end enumerate
-
-
-@item
-Q2.5 What do I use to yank-through when replying?
-
-You should probably reply and followup with @kbd{R} and @kbd{F}, instead
-of @kbd{r} and @kbd{f}, which solves your problem. But you could try
-something like:
-
-@example
-(defconst mail-yank-ignored-headers
- "^.*:"
- "Delete these headers from message when it's inserted in reply.")
-@end example
-
-
-@item
-Q2.6 I don't like the default WWW browser
-
-Now when choosing an URL Gnus starts up a W3 buffer, I would like it
-to always use Netscape (I don't browse in text-mode ;-).
-
-@enumerate
-@item
-Activate `Customize...' from the `Help' menu.
-
-@item
-Scroll down to the `WWW Browser' field.
-
-@item
-Click `mouse-2' on `WWW Browser'.
-
-@item
-Select `Netscape' from the pop up menu.
-
-@item
-Press `C-c C-c'
-
-@end enumerate
-
-If you are using XEmacs then to specify Netscape do
-@lisp
- (setq gnus-button-url 'gnus-netscape-open-url)
-@end lisp
-
-
-@item
-Q2.7 What, if any, relation is between ``ask-server'' and ``(setq
-gnus-read-active-file 'some)''?
-
-In order for Gnus to show you the complete list of newsgroups, it will
-either have to either store the list locally, or ask the server to
-transmit the list. You enable the first with
-
-@lisp
- (setq gnus-save-killed-list t)
-@end lisp
-
-and the second with
-
-@lisp
- (setq gnus-read-active-file t)
-@end lisp
-
-If both are disabled, Gnus will not know what newsgroups exists. There
-is no option to get the list by casting a spell.
-
-
-@item
-Q2.8 Moving between groups is slow.
-
-Per Abrahamsen <abraham@@dina.kvl.dk> writes:@*
-
-Do you call @code{define-key} or something like that in one of the
-summary mode hooks? This would force Emacs to recalculate the keyboard
-shortcuts. Removing the call should speed up @kbd{M-x gnus-summary-mode
-RET} by a couple of orders of magnitude. You can use
-
-@lisp
-(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map KEY COMMAND)
-@end lisp
-
-in your @file{.gnus} instead.
-
-@end itemize
-
-
-@node Reading News FAQ
-@subsection Reading News
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Q3.1 How do I convert my kill files to score files?
-
-@samp{ethanb@@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu, Ethan Bradford} write a
-kill-to-score translator. It is available from@*
-@file{http://baugi.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding-various/gnus-kill-to-score.el}.
-
-
-@item
-Q3.2 My news server has a lot of groups, and killing groups is painfully
-slow.
-
-Don't do that then. The best way to get rid of groups that should be
-dead is to edit your newsrc directly. This problem will be addressed
-in the near future.
-
-
-@item
-Q3.3 How do I use an NNTP server with authentication?
-
-Put the following into your .gnus:
-@lisp
- (add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-authinfo)
-@end lisp
-
-
-@item
-Q3.4 Not reading the first article.
-
-How do I avoid reading the first article when a group is selected?
-
-@enumerate
-@item
-Use @kbd{RET} to select the group instead of @kbd{SPC}.
-
-@item
-@code{(setq gnus-auto-select first nil)}
-
-@item
-Luis Fernandes <elf@@mailhost.ee.ryerson.ca>writes:@*
-This is what I use...customize as necessary...
-
-@lisp
-;;; Don't auto-select first article if reading sources, or
-;;; archives or jobs postings, etc. and just display the
-;;; summary buffer
-(add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook
- (function
- (lambda ()
- (cond ((string-match "sources" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "jobs" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "comp\\.archives" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "reviews" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "announce" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "binaries" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- (t
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first t))))))
-@end lisp
-
-@item
-Per Abrahamsen <abraham@@dina.kvl.dk> writes:@*
-Another possibility is to create an @file{all.binaries.all.SCORE} file
-like this:
-
-@lisp
-((local
- (gnus-auto-select-first nil)))
-@end lisp
-
-and insert
-@lisp
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first t)
-@end lisp
-
-in your @file{.gnus}.
-
-@end enumerate
-
-@item
-Q3.5 Why aren't BBDB known posters marked in the summary buffer?
-
-Brian Edmonds <edmonds@@cs.ubc.ca> writes:@*
-Due to changes in Gnus 5.0, @file{bbdb-gnus.el} no longer marks known
-posters in the summary buffer. An updated version, @file{gnus-bbdb.el}
-is available at the locations listed below. This package also supports
-autofiling of incoming mail to folders specified in the BBDB. Extensive
-instructions are included as comments in the file.
-
-Send mail to @file{majordomo@@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca} with the following
-line in the body of the message: @emph{get misc gnus-bbdb.el}.
-
-Or get it from the World Wide Web:@*
-@file{http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/gnus-bbdb.el}.
-
-@end itemize
-
-
-@node Reading Mail FAQ
-@subsection Reading Mail
-
-@itemize @bullet
-@item
-Q4.1 What does the message ``Buffer has changed on disk'' mean in a mail
-group?
-
-Your filter program should not deliver mail directly to your folders,
-instead it should put the mail into spool files. Gnus will then move
-the mail safely from the spool files into the folders. This will
-eliminate the problem. Look it up in the manual, in the section
-entitled ``Mail & Procmail''.
-
-
-@item
-Q4.2 How do you make articles un-expirable?
-
-I am using nnml to read news and have used
-@code{gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups} to automagically expire articles
-in some groups (Gnus being one of them). Sometimes there are
-interesting articles in these groups that I want to keep. Is there any
-way of explicitly marking an article as un-expirable - that is mark it
-as read but not expirable?
-
-Use @kbd{u}, @kbd{!}, @kbd{d} or @kbd{M-u} in the summary buffer. You
-just remove the @kbd{E} mark by setting some other mark. It's not
-necessary to tick the articles.
-
-
-@item
-Q4.3 How do I delete bogus nnml: groups?
-
-My problem is that I have various mail (nnml) groups generated while
-experimenting with Gnus. How do I remove them now? Setting the level to
-9 does not help. Also @code{gnus-group-check-bogus-groups} does not
-recognize them.
-
-Removing mail groups is tricky at the moment. (It's on the to-do list,
-though.) You basically have to kill the groups in Gnus, shut down Gnus,
-edit the active file to exclude these groups, and probably remove the
-nnml directories that contained these groups as well. Then start Gnus
-back up again.
-
-
-@item
-Q4.4 What happened to my new mail groups?
-
-I got new mail, but I have
-never seen the groups they should have been placed in.
-
-They are probably there, but as zombies. Press @kbd{A z} to list
-zombie groups, and then subscribe to the groups you want with @kbd{u}.
-This is all documented quite nicely in the user's manual.
-
-
-@item
-Q4.5 Not scoring mail groups
-
-How do you @emph{totally} turn off scoring in mail groups?
-
-Use an nnbabyl:all.SCORE (or nnmh, or nnml, or whatever) file containing:
-
-@example
-((adapt ignore)
- (local (gnus-use-scoring nil))
- (exclude-files "all.SCORE"))
-@end example
-
-@end itemize
-
-
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