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10.7.3: Reading News

• Q3.1 How do I convert my kill files to score files?

  A kill-to-score translator was written by Ethan Bradford <ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu>. It is available from
  `http://baugi.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding-various/gnus-kill-to-score.el'.

• 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.

• Q3.3 How do I use an NNTP server with authentication?

  Put the following into your .gnus:

   (add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-authinfo)
  

• Q3.4 Not reading the first article.

  How do I avoid reading the first article when a group is selected?

  1. Use RET to select the group instead of SPC.
  2. (setq gnus-auto-select first nil)
  3. Luis Fernandes <elf@mailhost.ee.ryerson.ca>writes:
     This is what I use...customize as necessary...

     ;;; 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))))))
     

  4. Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
     Another possibility is to create an `all.binaries.all.SCORE' file like this:

     ((local
       (gnus-auto-select-first nil)))
     

     and insert

     	(setq gnus-auto-select-first t)
     

     in your `.gnus'.

• 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, `bbdb-gnus.el' no longer marks known posters in the summary buffer. An updated version, `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 `majordomo@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca' with the following line in the body of the message: get misc gnus-bbdb.el.

  Or get it from the World Wide Web:
  `http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/gnus-bbdb.el'.

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