From: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-secondary-select-methods: what's the point?
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:57:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r5yacoa6.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763fnbhpp.fsf@engster.org>
on Tue May 26 2009, David Engster <deng-AT-randomsample.de> wrote:
> 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.
Oh, that one's interesting. My IMAP server is the native method right
now, and the startup query can be painful to wait through!
> Otherwise, it's more or less a matter of taste. Some people like to have
> their full configuration in .gnus, and not in .newsrc.eld, since the
> latter isn't meant to be edited by hand.
The *full* configuration? Does that mean it's possible to store the
subscriptions in .gnus as well?
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 19:25 David Abrahams
2009-05-26 22:52 ` David Engster
2009-05-27 1:01 ` Mark Plaksin
2009-05-27 8:37 ` David Engster
2009-05-27 15:58 ` Mark Plaksin
2009-07-08 19:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-05-27 19:57 ` David Abrahams
2009-05-27 19:57 ` David Abrahams [this message]
2009-05-27 22:08 ` David Engster
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