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Subject: Re: Make nnml primary server and nntp secondary server?
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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:

> What would be the implication of doing the change?  For instance, what
> happens to M-x gnus-no-server RET?  Will it then connect to my NNTP
> server and not bother with the nnml groups?

All backends are equal in the eyes of Gnus.  Gnus doesn't care whether 
the groups come from a mail backend or a Gnus backend, really.

And the only difference between primary and secondary servers is that
groups from the latter have nn*: prepended to the group names.  Kind
of.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen