[I'm only following up to a subset of the issues]
Dan Jacobson writes:
Can you believe doing
$ http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/ emacs-snapshot -f gnus
causes
GET http://localhosthttp://localhost:8080/ HTTP/1.1...
or at least that is what tcpflow shows.
AFAICT this has been fixed recently
Problems with nnrss-versionnnrss 1.0 and or gnus-versionNo Gnus v0.6
(Debian emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20060923-1)
using /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/gnus/nnrss.elc (which inside
says it was compiled from
$ wc/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus/lisp/nnrss.el
1098 3794 36774)
Error
