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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Group names from server nnml:foo are nnml+foo:bar.
>
> Well, sort of.  A select method looking like `(nnml "foo")' is often
> displayed like "nnml:foo", and I guess that's the default server name
> if no other name is assigned.

Hm.  But if you enter it in gnus-secondary-select-methods, you have
to use "foo" :-)

>> How about renaming these servers from nnml:foo to nnml+foo, for
>> consistency?
>
> Would that break stuff?  

Well, as long as the server-name-to-select-method function continues
to grok the colon, I think nothing should go wrong.

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