From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68572 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-secondary-select-methods: what's the point? Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 00:08:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87iqjl80fk.fsf@engster.org> References: <8763fnbhpp.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243540830 30633 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2009 20:00:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:00:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17003@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 28 22:00:25 2009 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 4.50) id 1M9lm3-0003tW-6B for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 22:00:23 +0200 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 1M9ll5-0005VQ-AZ; Thu, 28 May 2009 14:59:23 -0500 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 1M9lkF-0005Uq-9E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 May 2009 14:58:31 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M9ljz-0000HX-QJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 May 2009 14:58:31 -0500 Original-Received: from m61s02.vlinux.de ([83.151.21.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1M9lkT-0007QC-00 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 21:58:45 +0200 Original-Received: from dslc-082-082-177-108.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.82.177.108] helo=void) by m61s02.vlinux.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M9ljy-0006g9-0A for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 21:58:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: (David Abrahams's message of "Wed, 27 May 2009 15:57:05 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -1.8 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68572 [To whoever is moderating this list: please discard my old posting, which got stalled due to containing a word that begins with "unsub" and ends with "scribe" in the 4th line...] David Abrahams writes: > on Tue May 26 2009, David Engster wrote: >> * foreign methods: won't be queried for new groups on startup. Server >> vanishes if you [DELETED] from all its groups. > > Oh, that one's interesting. My IMAP server is the native method right > now, and the startup query can be painful to wait through! Does setting (setq gnus-read-active-file nil gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil) speed that up? >> Otherwise, it's more or less a matter of taste. Some people like to have >> their full configuration in .gnus, and not in .newsrc.eld, since the >> latter isn't meant to be edited by hand. > > The *full* configuration? Does that mean it's possible to store the > subscriptions in .gnus as well? Uhm... I don't think so. Better make that "most of the configuration". ;-) -David