From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75050 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting rid of the primary/secondary distinction Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:29:17 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <878vzqeq5e.fsf@dod.no> References: <8739pzyr6i.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292444984 8260 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 20:29:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:29:44 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23406@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 15 21:29:40 2010 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 1PSxyk-0001VH-JL for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:29:38 +0100 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 1PSxyj-0004MZ-M4; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:29:37 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PSxyi-0004MM-HX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:29:36 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PSxyg-0000em-EB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:29:36 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PSxyf-0007mG-JS for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:29:33 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSxyc-0001Pa-IN for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:29:30 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.226.192.getinternet.no ([84.208.226.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:29:30 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.226.192.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:29:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.226.192.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nKLBDZ2D2gGSIVuJcHq9PM053vI= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75050 Archived-At: >>>>> Ted Zlatanov : > That sounds like a great solution. Many users (e.g. me) like foreign > groups better than select methods, so they don't even have to care > about `gnus-methods' but can just add a foreign server and browse the > groups it has. I've never quite understood the relationship between servers in the server buffer and select methods, be they primary or secondary. I started out with an NNTP server, and then later select methods for nnmh, and then nnml, and then nnimap, and eventually a succession of nnimap servers and nntp servers. Most new nntp servers I've just added in the server buffer (currently news.eclipse.org and news.opera.com), and then browsed to the groups I want. I've understood vaguely that these are somehow different than e.g. the gmane nntp server that is defined with a select method. But to all appearances they have looked the same, so I haven't worried about it. :-)