From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38523 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Strange server names confusion Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 19:13:13 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174373 22990 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:26:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 11591 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2001 23:13:15 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Sep 2001 23:13:15 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6728 invoked by uid 500); 2 Sep 2001 23:13:35 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2001 12:44:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38523 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38523 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: > Is there a way for a foreign server to have a different name than > address using the `normal' Gnus functions? When you create the server, Gnus asksk you for the name. The string you give is used for both the name and the address. But then you can edit the server to change the address. > I have the following entry in gnus-server-alist: >=20 > ("quimby" nntp "quimby" (nntp-address "news.gnus.org")) >=20 > I think that this means that both the name and the address are > "quimby". Therefore, "nntp:quimby" should work. But it doesn't, only > "quimby" works. I think that means that either I've misunderstood and misexplained things, or there's a bug in Gnus. Try this: (eq (gnus-server-to-method "quimby") (gnus-server-to-method "nntp:quimby")) If they are eq, then presumably Gnus is using something other than gnus-server-to-method to interpret the server names in group infos - maybe this is a bug. If they are not eq, then I've misunderstood something. > Or are you saying that with the above entry, "nntp:news.gnus.org" > should work? Whee... No, I wouldn't expect that to work. paul