Re: GNUS newsreader problem

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:37:36 +0200 Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote: 

AP> francogrex <franco@grex-removethis.com> writes:
>> Hello I am using GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) and try to use 
>> GNUS to connect to the usenet newsserver eternal-september. In my .emacs 
>> I have set this: (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.eternal-
>> september.org")) and I even set an authinfo file to supply my login and 
>> password. When I M-x GNUS it opens ok and recognizes the authinfo file 
>> and I see on the servers buffer '^' that I am actually connect to the 
>> newsserver: there is {open} (agent) (that I also tried to disable that 
>> agent). But I have no newsgroups? I try A-k, A-z nothing shows on the 
>> groups buffer? Can anyone give a hint why i can't get the newsgroups?

AP> In the server buffer hit `Enter' when point is on a news server.  It'll
AP> open a list of newsgroups you can subscribe to with some key I forgot.

AP> I would leave the agent enabled, because it caches already downloaded
AP> articles.

There's a Gnus manual (usually available from inside Emacs, even):

(info "Gnus")

franco should start there.  Specifically, the key to subscribe is `u' in
the group list but there's much more and the manual does a good job explaining.

Ted