From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78362 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail-sources versus select-methods Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:47:56 -0400 Message-ID: <84y63o4bg3.fsf@davestoy.home> References: <87lizv5ro9.fsf@bifteki.lan> <84r59mncl0.fsf@davestoy.home> <84oc4n5ysz.fsf@davestoy.home> <9239lxm0lr.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302040162 11580 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2011 21:49:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 21:49:22 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26666@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Apr 05 23:49:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7E7i-0004do-It for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:49:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7E6t-0002fx-Tr; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:48:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7E6t-0002fo-2O for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:48:27 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7E6r-0000Sh-R8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7E6q-0003uD-S6 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:48:25 +0200 Original-Received: from davestoy.home.verizon.net ([unknown] [173.48.216.252]) by vms173003.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LJ700E1W8JU8YV1@vms173003.mailsrvcs.net> for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:47:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: W!bie|rYVd43O:2CkHTb*~s5}Yzx30X<@6Tq_bnP56Hp!xX4sVl4tgYRirjRcke\wfY!JJ9 i?]VIUJicJzq2\!3%7$5R%wi!R[.]Va97q In-reply-to: <9239lxm0lr.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (Richard Riley's message of "Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:52:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) XEmacs/21.4.22 (linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78362 Archived-At: >> 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