Re: Avoid opening secondary select methods as foreign servers

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:13:02 +0200 asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) wrote: 

AS> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:57:11 +0200, Adam wrote:
>> This patch changes gnus-secondary-select-method-p to only look at
>> the first two elements in the list (nntp and "news.server.org"),
>> because the incoming argument never has the entire list.

>> gnus-check-server is then changed to call gnus-secondary-select-method-p
>> and if the server in question is in secondary-select-methods, the
>> configuration from there is used.

>> ---
>> lisp/gnus-int.el |    3 +++
>> lisp/gnus.el     |    6 +++---
>> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)I

AS> I get the feeling that I've become Warnocked¹ here.

AS> Anyone want to comment on the approach in the patch?

AS> I have been using it since I posted it, to no ill effect.

AS> I did have "nntp:news.gmane.org" for some groups in my .newsrc.eld, and
AS> (nntp "news.gmange.org") for others; changing the former to the latter
AS> stopped Gnus complaining about posting to possible unknown groups.

It seems OK to me but I haven't seen the problem you are fixing so I
can't verify it works.  Has anyone?  Can you explan how to trigger the bug?

Ted