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- From: dmason@plg.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Mason)
- Subject: Re: ``Wrong argument type:'' errors - in GNUS and elsewhere
- Message-ID: <92Sep4.134248edt.28989@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
- Originator: root@plg.uwaterloo.ca
- Sender: news@math.uwaterloo.ca (News Owner)
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <92Sep4.132045edt.28989@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:42:42 GMT
- Lines: 40
-
- The comment that I meant to say is that both of the cases I mentioned were
- cases of predicate functions. How can a predicate function be passed a
- wrong argument type?
-
- It just happened in another group, which has many deleted articles,
- followed by a single unread article. Therefore "C-U 1RET" even failed.
-
- I fired up emacs, read the article, so now all the articles in the newsgroup
- are read/deleted. Then I restarted gnus in lemacs and jumped to the group
- and tried "C-U 1RET" - still the same problem. Here is that article in its
- entirety:
- ------------
- Newsgroups: uw.general
- Path: watmath!watcgl!vhtodd
- From: vhtodd@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Val (Todd) Hay)
- Subject: Earn $10.00 doing a Psychology Experiment
- Message-ID: <Bu1yqp.47t@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Distribution: uw
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:01:36 GMT
-
- Earn $10.00 for completing a tactile
- (touch sensation -- fingers) experiment.
-
- It takes an hour.
-
- We need right-handed male subjects.
-
- If interested write back to me at this
- account.
-
- Val
- ------------
- Nothing exciting looking in that.
-
- Interestingly, more articles have arrived in alt.sex and I can no longer
- reproduce the problem! (Although more had arrived earlier and the problem
- was still there.) And uw.general still has the problem.
-
- ../Dave
-