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Bjørn Mork <bmork@dod.no> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Hm, my servers file looks like:
>>
>> ("nntp:quimby.gnus.org" "nntp:news.uslinuxtraining.com" "nnimap:yxa" nil)
>>
>> where did the nil come from?
>
> It's your primary select method. It's collapsed to nil by 
> gnus-method-simplify. Try removing it from agent and you'll see that
> the nil disappears. 

Aha.  Hm.  If I make my primary server a secondary server, this
breaks, does it not?  Moving servers around between primary,
secondary, archive etc works OK, I believe, so how about expanding
even the primary server as a string?  Then the "m" native hack
wouldn't be needed, I think.  Would this do something else bad?