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Bjørn Mork <bmork@dod.no> writes:

>>> 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? 
>
> Yes. Didn't know that was a common operation. I still have some
> problems being open-minded enough regarding what people want to do
> with Gnus :-)
>
> Doesn't this also break other things, like group subscribtions?

Hm, yes, never mind, not a good idea.