Can't cancel a news article

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yam...@jpl.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I found a bug in the function message-send-news. When I cancel
> my own news article, Emacs signals an error as follows:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp dont-check-for-anything-just-trust-me)
> assq(newsgroups ((valid-newsgroups . disabled) . dont-check-for-anything-just-trust-me))
> [...]
> message-check-element(newsgroups)
> [...]
> message-check-news-header-syntax()
> [...]
> message-check-news-syntax()
> [...]
> message-send-news()
> funcall(message-send-news)
> [...]
> message-cancel-news()
> gnus-summary-cancel-article(nil nil)
> call-interactively(gnus-summary-cancel-article)
>
> Here is a patch for fixing the problem:
>
> 2001-10-10 Katsumi Yamaoka <yam...@jpl.org>
>
> * message.el (message-send-news): Don't modify the value of
> `message-syntax-checks' if it is not a list (possibly it is
> `dont-check-for-anything-just-trust-me').

Installed. Thanks.

ShengHuo