Re: Gnus Describe Group and Gnus Describe All Groups

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>>> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>>> Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> When viewing the list of subscribed groups in gnus, you can select
>>>>> from                                                  
>>>>> the group menu an option to describe the group (ctrl-c ctrl-d). For
>>>>> this                                                 
>>>>> group the description is "News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS
>>>>> (in                                                    
>>>>> English)." There is also an option to describe all groups (alt-d
>>>>> or                                                      
>>>>> M-d). I anticipated that this would put the description like
>>>>> above                                                       
>>>>> beside each group, but it just puts the group name. Is this a
>>>>> bug?                                                       
>>>> When I run `gnus-group-describe-all-groups' it pops up a completely
>>>> separate buffer containing all group descriptions, one per line.
>>>> `gnus-group-describe-group', on the other hand, just echoes the
>>>> description in the minibuffer. Neither of the commands actually change
>>>> how the *Group* buffer looks. Is that not what you're seeing?
>>>
>
>> Which of the above servers hosts the groups that aren't producing
>> descriptions correctly? I only use news.gmane.io. If the server is
>> freely accessible I can try reproducing the behavior.
>>
> There are no descriptions from any servers that I have tried (using
> gnus-group-describe-all-groups). You could try news.aioe.org, that is
> freely available.

So far it works fine for me for news.gmane.io and news.aioe.org:

*: nntp+news.aioe.org:ak.test Messages with the beta-nature.
*: nntp+news.aioe.org:akr.biz Advertisements for Akron area businesses.
*: nntp+news.aioe.org:akr.freenet Discussion about the Akron Regional Free-Net.
*: nntp+news.aioe.org:akr.internet Internet access in the Akron, Ohio, area.
*: nntp+news.aioe.org:akr.jobs announcements and discussion of jobs in the 
Akron area.

news.mozilla.org simply seems to not provide group descriptions at all.

Remind me of the version of Emacs/Gnus you're using?