From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69884 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Avoid opening secondary select methods as foreign servers Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:12:35 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87lj8f27u4.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87fwzwfi5l.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87bpakfhtg.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <8739vwupt4.fsf_-_@topper.koldfront.dk> <87eif1kgtt.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <877hk7cy14.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vd7lp5n1.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <871va9dwe2.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 1281363248 29183 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2010 14:14:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:14:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18271@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 09 16:14:06 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 1OiT78-0007pX-9i for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:14:06 +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 1OiT61-0003uD-5E; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:12:57 -0500 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 1OiT60-0003u3-2c for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:12:56 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OiT5x-0001ac-Sk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OiT5w-0003kB-00 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:12:52 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiT5t-0007JM-Q0 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:12:49 +0200 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 ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:12:49 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:12:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 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:KrMMhwleNGDZLSsZdHnof1A064A= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69884 Archived-At: 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