From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31507 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: difference between foreign and secondary servers? Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:33:36 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167909 14468 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:38:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Helmut Waitzmann Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA4CD052A for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:34:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAC22134; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:34:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:33:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13627 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:33:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58057D052A for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:33:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id SAA13793; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:33:36 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id SAA01386; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:33:36 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id SAA31515; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:33:36 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 37 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31507 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31507 Helmut points out the following from the Gnus info file: Servers and Methods ------------------- Wherever you would normally use a select method (e.g. `gnus-secondary-select-method', in the group select method, when browsing a foreign server) you can use a virtual server name instead. This could potentially save lots of typing. And it's nice all over. He interprets this to mean that he can add servers in the server buffer, and then (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '("foo" "bar" "baz")) Or maybe this: (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '("nnml:foo" "nnfolder:bar" "nnml:baz")) Until now, I thought the only difference between secondary and foreign servers was that the former are mentioned in gnus-secondary-select-methods. When one puts the whole server definition (parameters and all) into gnus-secondary-select-methods, you can see where the difference is -- you can frob the gnus-secondary-select-methods nicely from Lisp code in site-start.el or something, which is not possible for the foreign servers. But Helmut doesn't do this. In fact, the info file even suggests it. So, where is the difference between secondary and foreign servers? There must be more to it than just that the secondary servers are mentioned in gnus-secondary-select-methods! Ideas? kai -- I like BOTH kinds of music.