From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/87741 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Quick survey of gnus-server-alist Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:06:50 +0200 Organization: not if I can help it Message-ID: <87d15nsh9x.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87d15o3y36.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508137708 22089 195.159.176.226 (16 Oct 2017 07:08:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:08:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m35955@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 16 09:08:22 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com ([107.189.48.35]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e3zVW-00045n-Ls for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:08:14 +0200 X-Yomura-MXScrub: 1.0 Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu (unknown [129.7.128.208]) by mxfilter-048035.atla03.us.yomura.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id bcfb5a89-b240-11e7-86ce-b499baabecb2; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1e3zUd-00050B-0i; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1e3zUZ-0004zQ-EF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1e3zUY-00089B-Fy for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 02:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1e3zUX-0008Pm-2m for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:07:13 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e3zUI-0003Ib-K5 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:06:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:gUTfhMYpTAR2ExCrx5R8zz8mhME= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:87741 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > I'm trying to figure out how all the variables that hold Gnus' servers > actually work. `gnus-server-alist' looks like it's meant to be a fairly > authoritative list, but in my case it has never held anything but the > archive server. > > If anyone wants to take twenty seconds and satisfy my curiosity -- does > that variable hold anything else for you? Anything but the archive > server? > Mine holds only the archive server. > It looks like `gnus-server-method-cache' ends up actually holding the > information that would also have gone in `gnus-server-alist'. I see the same thing. Robert