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From: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: mail-sources versus select-methods
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:47:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84y63o4bg3.fsf@davestoy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9239lxm0lr.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (Richard Riley's	message of "Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:52:32 +0200")

>> Apples and oranges.  The two are complementary - there's no
>> competition here.

> But there is. You can achieve  the same thing using both. My Q is what s
> best and why.

Really?  How can you use a mail source without a select method?

I submit by my previous statement.  A select method (back end) is how you tell Gnus to read mail/news.  A mail source is how you tell Gnus to populate the back end if Gnus is going to be responsible for that.  It need not be.

-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-05 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-31 11:13 Richard Riley
2011-03-31 13:46 ` Leonidas Tsampros
2011-03-31 13:34   ` Richard Riley
2011-03-31 22:34     ` Dave Goldberg
2011-04-01 15:22       ` Richard Riley
2011-04-03 12:01         ` Dave Goldberg
2011-04-05 10:52           ` Richard Riley
2011-04-05 21:47             ` Dave Goldberg [this message]
2011-04-06 10:39               ` Richard Riley
2011-04-06 22:01                 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-04-07  0:45                   ` Richard Riley
2011-04-07 11:08                     ` Dave Goldberg

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