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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Hm.  But if you enter it in gnus-secondary-select-methods, you have
> to use "foo" :-)

Yup.  :-)

>> Would that break stuff?  
>
> Well, as long as the server-name-to-select-method function continues
> to grok the colon, I think nothing should go wrong.

The whole server/select method thing was, er, less than
well-thought-out to begin with, and it's been kludged with a
gazillion times.  It now kinda works, and I'm frankly a bit scared to
fiddle with it even cosmetically.  :-)

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