Re: self contained nnfolder

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> I'm still curious why my nnfolder groups come with various servers:
> "nnfolder:", (nnfolder "") and "archive".  What's the difference
> between these?  Can they be unified?

I think it is best to always use strings for the server that a group
belongs to.  That is, replace all occurrences of (nnfolder "") with
"nnfolder:", using `G e' (or by editing .newsrc.eld directly).

Then you can change the server parameters on the fly, either by going
in the server buffer with ^ and hitting e on the server, or by
changing the entry in gnus-secondary-select-methods.  For example, I
used to access several groups from a foreign server using an
rlogin-like program.  But now I can access the server directly.  So
all I needed to do was to go to the server buffer and hit e on the
server to replace

(nntp "quimby"
      (nntp-address "gateway")
      (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh")
      ...)

with

(nntp "quimby" (nntp-address "quimby.gnus.org"))

(Well, to tell the truth I had the bad thing before -- the `G e'
output was a list.  So I first changed that into a string.  But _from
now on_, if I ever need to frob the server parameters, I don't need to
go to each group.)

kai
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