Re: *Server* buffer problems when adding server parameters

[Benjamin Rutt <brutt+news@bloomington.in.us>]

Benjamin Rutt <brutt+news@bloomington.in.us> writes:

> I'll G e it from *Group* and set it to just "archive" and try again.

Yes, that did the trick.  Why the select method got all fubar in the
first place remains a mystery.

Thanks for the help, Lars and Kai, and sorry for my misunderstanding
of what the select method should look like.  To defend myself, I think
the following line in gnus info threw me, when I was trying to learn
what he meant by "Have a peek at the select method of these groups":

,----[ from (Info-goto-node "(gnus)Select Methods") ]
| a select method is a list where the first element says what backend to
| use (e.g. `nntp', `nnspool', `nnml') and the second element is the
| "server name".  There may be additional elements in the select method,
| where the value may have special meaning for the backend in question.
`----

So, I figured that when lars asked me to check on the select method
for the groups, he was telling me to sure the second element of the
list making up the select method is the string "archive", which it
was.  I couldn't grok the idea that a select method was not a list,
since it said clearly that it is a list in the documentation above.
So, don't we have a doc bug in the above info node?  I'm sorry that I
don't know enough about a select method yet to know how to correct it,
though.  I'm thinking it could be revised to say something like "a
select method is either the server name as a string or a list where
the first element..."

If the above is a bug, then surely the following is a bug also,

,----[ from (Info-goto-node "(gnus)Terminology") ]
| "select method"
|      A structure that specifies the backend, the server and the virtual
|      server settings.
`----

unless by "structure" it is obvious to the reader that it can either
be a string or a list.

-- 
Benjamin