From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38261 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: *Server* buffer problems when adding server parameters Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:36:31 -0500 Organization: Gnus Information Center Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174154 21439 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:22:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26924 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2001 18:37:05 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (195.204.10.139) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Aug 2001 18:37:05 -0000 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA07416 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:37:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.89.210.211 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 998678221 21269 63.89.210.211 (24 Aug 2001 18:37:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Aug 2001 18:37:01 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 43 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38261 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38261 Benjamin Rutt 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