Naive question about group names

Naive question about group names

[Manoj Srivastava]

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Hi,

        I have long notived that when I create new groups, say,
 nnml:testing, in the group buffer I can get voth testing and
 nnnl:testing, and they point to identical data, though flags on
 individual messages are not shared (making with ! or ? is local to the
 group name).

        I have been using Gnus for decades, and I have always ignored
 this disparity, I have always wondered why there are two variants (I
 generally make one or the other a zombie group). Is there a canonical
 name? Should I work wirh testing or nnml:testing? Is there a way to
 eliminate one or the other?

        manoj
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Re: Naive question about group names

[Adam Sjøgren]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> writes:

>         I have been using Gnus for decades, and I have always ignored
>  this disparity, I have always wondered why there are two variants (I
>  generally make one or the other a zombie group). Is there a canonical
>  name? Should I work wirh testing or nnml:testing? Is there a way to
>  eliminate one or the other?

Do you by any change have nnml as your gnus-select-method?

I tend to configure Gnus to have an nnnil server in gnus-select-method,
and then add my real servers to gnus-secondary-select-methods. This way,
all groups will have the server prefix.

The difference between gnus-select-method and
gnus-secondary-select-methods is exactly that, I think, so it might be
the root cause of the duplication you see.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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