From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36985 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-message-archive-method is confusing Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:33:09 -0400 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 1035172478 11457 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:54:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26818 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2001 19:33:10 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Jul 2001 19:33:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7553 invoked by uid 500); 20 Jul 2001 19:33:31 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "13 Jun 2001 10:39:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 17 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36985 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > It turns out that this gnus-message-archive-method business is > confusing the heck out of some people. Many people seem to think that > they should set this variable to their normal mail backend, but fail > in doing it right. But it would have been so simple if they just used > fully qualified group names in gnus-message-archive-group! I expect FQGNs probably would be less error-prone - you can't accidentally create a new server that way, can you? But then someone ought to change the docstring for gnus-message-archive-group; currently, it discourages use of FQGNs. How does gnus-outgoing-message-group relate to all this? Is it obsoleted by g-m-a-g? Or used for something slightly different? paul