[email protected] (Benjamin L. Russell) writes:

Hi Benjamin,

> I need to set up Gnus to use the following three NNTP servers:
>
>> news20.forteinc.com
>> news.gmane.org
>> news.gnus.org
>
> Of these three, news20.forteinc.com requires a username and password,
> which I have set up on my ~/.authinfo file, as follows:
>
>> machine news20.forteinc.com login <username> password <password>

Looks good.

> The other two NNTP servers do not require a username or password.
>
> Currently, I have the following setup in my ~/.gnus.el file:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news20.forteinc.com"))
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.gnus.org"))

Looks good as well.

> For some reason, I am able to subscribe to new newsgroups successfully
> using the "Describe all groups" function only in the first two
> servers, but not in the third.

Do you see the last server listed in the *Server* buffer, and if so,
what's its state?  (To get to the *Server* buffer hit ^ in *Group*.)

Bye,
Tassilo


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