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Subject: Re: *Server* buffer problems when adding server parameters
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>>> When Gnus says "... server ...", it's talking about the designator
>>> for a select method.
>>
>> Meaning the second element?  Or the first two?
> 
> Neither.  The server name is outside the select method.  The only
> place you can actually see the server name is in `gnus-server-alist'.

So since primary and secondary servers aren't listed there, they don't
have names?

> (The name of the server is most often the same as the address element
> in the select method, but that's in no way guaranteed.)

So when I [a]dd a new server in the *Server* buffer, and Gnus asks me
for the "name", that also becomes the second element of the select
method.  Then I can [e]dit the server and change the second element,
but the name remain the same.  Is that right?


paul