From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75142 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?utf-8?Q?Sj=C3=B8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting rid of the primary/secondary distinction Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:08:52 +0100 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87zks5zj2j.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> References: <8739pzyr6i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762uuwyib.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292522985 27791 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2010 18:09:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:09:45 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23497@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 16 19:09:41 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 1PTIGr-0005oU-03 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:09:41 +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 1PTIGJ-0004Iu-Ue; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:09:07 -0600 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 1PTIGI-0004Id-HM for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:09:06 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTIGG-0001gB-HL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:09:06 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PTIGF-0005r0-Q5 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:09:03 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTIGF-0005QA-Gx for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:09:03 +0100 Original-Received: from rain.gmane.org ([80.91.229.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:09:03 +0100 Original-Received: from asjo by rain.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:09:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rain.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75142 Archived-At: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:51:24 -0600, Ted wrote: LMI> (gnus-add-method '(nnimap "foo.example.org" LMI> (nnimap-port 232))) LMI> in their .gnus.el than configuring this sort of stuff in the server LMI> buffer. > I actually think the foreign servers are much closer to what people > expect, coming from other MUAs like Thunderbird, Evolution, etc. ... those users always struggle to remember what the correct answer is to all the questions. Being able to just look at and copy/paste the whole shebang is - to me - a nice property. Maybe I am just oldfashioned, but I really like being able to find everything and reading it, rather than having to rummage through the server buffer, group parameters and topic parameters. I always forget that I have those... Just a couple of cents, Adam -- "Accept the mystery!" Adam Sjøgren asjo@koldfront.dk