2002-07-18 Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com>

	* gnus.texi (To From Newsgroups): Additional text regarding how to
	regenerate overviews via server buffer, and note to news admins
	about overview.fmt.

diff --git a/texi/ChangeLog b/texi/ChangeLog
index f30dcba..5248a21 100644 (file)
--- a/texi/ChangeLog
+++ b/texi/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-07-18  Karl Kleinpaste  <karl@charcoal.com>
+
+       * gnus.texi (To From Newsgroups): Additional text regarding how to
+       regenerate overviews via server buffer, and note to news admins
+       about overview.fmt.
+
 2002-07-14  Kai Gro\e,b_\e(Bjohann  <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
 
        * gnus.texi (Posting Styles): Fix example (it was using the To

diff --git a/texi/gnus.texi b/texi/gnus.texi
index a9ed7ee..8a9be34 100644 (file)
--- a/texi/gnus.texi
+++ b/texi/gnus.texi
@@ -4542,7 +4542,8 @@ headers are used instead.
 A related variable is @code{nnmail-extra-headers}, which controls when
 to include extra headers when generating overview (@sc{nov}) files.  If
 you have old overview files, you should regenerate them after changing
-this variable.
+this variable, by entering the server buffer using `^', and then `g' on
+the appropriate mail server (e.g. nnml) to cause regeneration.
 
 @vindex gnus-summary-line-format
 You also have to instruct Gnus to display the data by changing the
@@ -4565,9 +4566,13 @@ In summary, you'd typically put something like the following in
 (The values listed above are the default values in Gnus.  Alter them
 to fit your needs.)
 
-Now, this is mostly useful for mail groups, where you have control over
+A note for news server administrators, or for users who wish to try to
+convince their news server administrator to provide some additional
+support:
+
+The above is mostly useful for mail groups, where you have control over
 the @sc{nov} files that are created.  However, if you can persuade your
-nntp admin to add:
+nntp admin to add (in the usual implementation, notably INN):
 
 @example
 Newsgroups:full