From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75019 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Streamlining first-time Gnus usage Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:36:41 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ipyvyrna.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87oc8ptxks.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292427623 13317 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 15:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:40:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23375@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 15 16:40:19 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 1PStSi-0004Pr-DC for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:40:16 +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 1PStSb-0002FR-IV; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:40:09 -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 1PStSa-0002FF-Bv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:40:08 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PStSZ-0007lb-9P for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:40:08 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PStSY-0002gv-IG for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:40:06 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PStSW-0004Gh-8j for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:40:04 +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 ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:40:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:40:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 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:gmRP+ZLma53IktwoOt65x6sbViY= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75019 Archived-At: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:02:59 +0100 asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) wrote: AS> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:29:55 +0100, Lars wrote: >> But we could recommend doing stuff like >> (gnus-add-method '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com")) >> (gnus-add-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org")) >> instead of exposing the primary/secondary stuff directly. I mean, if we >> just drop the idea of a primary method altogether, and just say that >> they're all secondary, then everything is fine. Except for the long, >> prefixed group names... AS> Sound good, I think! AS> I have grown accustomed to setting the primary method to nnnil when I am AS> configuring a new Gnus (i.e. when changing jobs) - so all servers are AS> secondary, and equal, citizens. I think the primary method should be nnnil by default. Ted