Re: Avoid opening secondary select methods as foreign servers

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:14:29 +0200 asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) wrote: 

AS> On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:59:14 +0200, Adam wrote:
>> I may be able to simply solve my problem by doing a search and replace
>> on (nntp "news.gmane.org") to "nntp:news.gmane.org" in my .newsrc.eld,
>> and maybe that is the correct solution...

>> I think I just confused myself.

AS> Yeah, doing so worked.

AS> I guess, now, that in .newsrc.eld (nntp "news.gmane.org") means "the
AS> foreign server defined by this", while "nntp:news.gmane.org" means "the
AS> secondary server named news.gmane.org".

AS> And when I changed my access to news.gmane.org from being as a foreign
AS> server to a secondary method (waaaaay back), I didn't update .newsrc.eld
AS> to reflect that (didn't know any better), thus causing me the problem I
AS> tried to fix without understanding why I had that problem.

AS> Thanks for kicking me in the right direction; I'm pretty sure, now, that
AS> the patch I posted shouldn't be applied. Case closed :-)

Thanks for explaining.  I didn't know this implementation detail either,
assuming the two forms were equivalent :)

Ted