Re: My drafts group has disappeared

[Dan Davison]

Dan <dandavison7@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 26, 4:50 pm, Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:01:53 +0530 Sharad Pratap <sh4...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> SP> I have seen this reply while searching about something, after
>> SP> that I have joined Eternal-September.
>>
>> SP> I wanted to know that for this group gnu.emacs.gnus googlegroup
>> SP> have 22500 article, here in eternal-september number of article in the
>> SP> group is ~350.
>>
>> SP> Could little explain there is some partial synchronization between
>> SP> googlegroup and eternal-september server.
>> SP> Or simply you have posted in two different group.
>>
>> eternal-september keeps fewer articles, that's all (googlegroups is not
>> really a NNTP server in any case).  NNTP expiration is up to the server
>> administrators and the daemon software.  NNTP synchronization is very
>> reliable, generally, so I wouldn't worry about missing articles on
>> eternal-september.
>>
>> Ted
>
> I am failing to follow this discussion. Would someone mind explaining
> how to use gnus to subscribe to the main gnus mailing list(s) in such
> a way that one receives all the messages rather than a subset?
>
> At the moment I have
>
>       16: nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.gnus.user(m)
>       42: nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.gnus.general(m)
>
> and these channels only seem to receive  a fraction of the gnus user
> help traffic that internet searches reveal.

Ah, OK, I have configured eternal-september in gnus as suggested by Ted,
and now I can see these messages in emacs rather than in a web
browser. I guess I just don't understand what subset of messages
news.gmane.org is showing and why, but I can probably do OK remaining
ignorant on that point.

Thanks for the help,

Dan