From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38155 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Using nnimap Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:52:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87sneoexmj.fsf@IDEALX.com> <998239349.3b7fec75e97be@imp.free.fr> <7zlmkd96z3.fsf@amboise.ird.idealx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035173780 19340 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:16:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jerome.marant@idealx.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?J=E9r=F4me?= Marant), ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 12764 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2001 15:53:30 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 21 Aug 2001 15:53:30 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id RAA19726; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:52:51 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id RAA11075; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:52:50 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 93D56201D; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:52:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Jody Klymak In-Reply-To: (Jody Klymak's message of "21 Aug 2001 08:08:20 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 17 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38155 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38155 Jody Klymak writes: > FWIW, I'll echo Jerome's question: why does gnus have secondary and > primary methods? Who knows. Maybe for backward compatibility? Users of the old GNUS expected group names to be unadorned with a prefix. But Lars needed to do something to distinguish like-named groups on different servers. So he picked one server for unadorned group names. People who don't need the distinction might wish to use nnnil.el as the primary server (this backend contains no groups) and make all servers secondary. kai -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature