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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> > As for why nntp doesn't look in that file...  Uhm...  Is it used
> > much?
> 
> What `/etc/nntpserver'?  It's used quite a lot, because it's a
> convenient way to set up the system-wide NNTP server default,
> especially on multi-user machines.  (I have it on machine where I
> work.)

I was wrong -- it is used, but only as the default if
`gnus-select-method' hasn't been defined.  Which is as it should be, I
think. 

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen