From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68565 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-secondary-select-methods: what's the point? Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:57:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8763fnbhpp.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243454421 17089 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2009 20:00:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 20:00:21 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16996@lists.math.uh.edu Wed May 27 22:00:17 2009 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 4.50) id 1M9PIN-0006HT-Jm for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:15 +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 1M9PIL-0007X1-Bs; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:13 -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 1M9PIK-0007Wo-9L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M9PIE-000709-JG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1M9PIh-00053m-00 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 22:00:35 +0200 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M9PIB-0002gA-Av for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:00:03 +0000 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:00:03 +0000 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:00:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jOSNdyWSRAWMO15tgKcwbo1dkTA= X-Spam-Score: -3.5 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68565 Archived-At: on Tue May 26 2009, Mark Plaksin wrote: > David Engster writes: > >> In a nutshell, I see the following differences: >> >> * native method: doesn't have a prefix and will be ignored if you start >> through gnus-no-server (only for groups with level >2). >> >> * secondary methods: do have a prefix, will not be ignored by >> gnus-no-server (?). >> >> * foreign methods: won't be queried for new groups on startup. Server >> vanishes if you unsubscribe from all its groups. >> >> Otherwise, it's more or less a matter of taste. > > There's a big difference for me with IMAP. If my groups are foreign > then checking for new messages is very slow. When they're not foreign I > get "nnimap: Quickly checking mailbox BLAH" and it really is much quicker. OK, scratch that idea ;-) -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com