tip if you have weird extra servers in the Server buffer

[Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>]

I was seeing weird stuff like this in my Server buffer of 0.98:

     {nnml:mail} (closed)
     {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:lppl} (opened)
     {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:mail.misc} (opened)
     {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:maybe-dupes} (opened)
     {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:tex} (opened)
     {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:texfonts} (opened)
     {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:texindex} (opened)
     {nnml:mail+nnml+mail:vfinst} (opened)
     {nnml:mail} (opened)


I tracked it down, and this is a result of having subscribed groups to
nnml+mail but with different group options.

For example:

gnus-find-method-for-group("nnml+mail:ctan-ann")
  -> (nnml "mail" (nnml-use-long-file-names t))

gnus-find-method-for-group("nnml+mail:vfinst")
  -> (nnml "mail+nnml+mail:vfinst" (nnml-address "mail") (nnml-use-long-file-names t) (nnml-get-new-mail nil))


Those two results should be parallel.  

I'm not sure exactly how I got things into this state, but I'm
guessing that I edited the virtual server and added the
nnml-get-new-mail specification after already having a couple of
groups.

To solve the problem, I edited the .newsrc.eld file by hand to make
the method for each group the same.

I'm not submitting this as a bug because I'm guessing that editing a
v. server's parameters after there are already subscribed groups in it
is one of those "features" of Gnus that I'm supposed to know better
than to ever use...  Also, I don't have the energy today to go confirm
that is the cause.  But this information may help someone seeing
similar garbage in the Server buffer.