Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus

[David Kastrup]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Sun, May 28 2006, Martin Jørgensen wrote:
>
>> byte-code: gnus-agent-read-agentview no longer supports version 1.
>> Stop gnus, manually evaluate
>> gnus-agent-convert-to-compressed-agentview, then restart gnus.
>>
>> Anyone know what that's about?
>
> Don't use yaced if they offer only outdated CVS versions.  This Gnus
> bug was fixed in Emacs CVS on 2005-12-09.

"Don't use" is step #2 with free software.  Step #1 is to mail the
author and ask whether he intends to release something to fix this
soon.  It's just a mail, not a phone sex line, and you don't get
blocked by support golems.  So it is always worth an attempt.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum