From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75110 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting rid of the primary/secondary distinction Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:17:42 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bp4lsndl.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8739pzyr6i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878vzqeq5e.fsf@dod.no> <871v5iwyfp.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292516324 24178 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2010 16:18:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:18:44 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23465@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 16 17:18:41 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 1PTGXN-0007Ur-JG for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:18:38 +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 1PTGWm-0002jX-5Q; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:18:00 -0600 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 1PTGWj-0002j6-8O for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:17:57 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGWi-000120-Ho for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:17:57 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGWh-0003c2-QF for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:17:55 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTGWf-00072G-9Y for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:17:53 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:17:53 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:17:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:B6oZ9LtfqtSVztmUZn0lZa6RsD4= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75110 Archived-At: On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:21:06 +0000 Andy Moreton wrote: AM> On Wed 15 Dec 2010, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> You're using foreign servers. "Foreign" means they are not coming from >> the select methods; the select methods are a pure ELisp data structure >> that defines what you want to see when you start up. All foreign server >> config and subscriptions are stored in the newsrc.eld file. AM> This is the first explanation I've seen of the difference between select AM> methods and foreign servers: it's much more useful than the definitions AM> in the Terminology page of the manual. AM> Can this be added to the manual ? I did that, under "Foreign Groups" but I rewrote it to mention the other stuff and generally be more consistent. Thanks Ted