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Subject: Re: self contained nnfolder
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Organization: What did you have in mind?  A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca> wrote:
> The general advice seems to be to use strings everywhere.

Use strings when *referring* to servers.  Use lists when *defining*
servers.  Any given server should be defined in only one place.
Apparently, gnus-secondary-select-methods can't be used to refer to
servers defined elsewhere, so a server can't be both secondary and
foreign.  Oh, well.

I just found gnus-predefined-server-alist.  I'm not sure what it's
for.  Mine contains just a "cache" server (which I don't use):
(("cache" nnspool "cache"
  (nnspool-spool-directory "~/News/cache/")
  (nnspool-nov-directory "~/News/cache/")
  (nnspool-active-file "~/News/cache/active")))
What's in yours?


paul