From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38538 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: Strange server names confusion Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 12:21:39 +0200 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 1035174385 23067 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:26:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25711 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2001 10:22:06 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 10:22:06 -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 MAA06821 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 12:21:39 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id MAA07811; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 12:21:39 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 2B7362097; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 12:21:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Sun, 02 Sep 2001 19:13:13 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Original-Lines: 42 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38538 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38538 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote: > > Is there a way for a foreign server to have a different name than >> address using the `normal' Gnus functions? > > When you create the server, Gnus asksk you for the name. The string > you give is used for both the name and the address. But then you can > edit the server to change the address. Ah, of course. >> I have the following entry in gnus-server-alist: >>=20 >> ("quimby" nntp "quimby" (nntp-address "news.gnus.org")) >>=20 >> I think that this means that both the name and the address are >> "quimby". Therefore, "nntp:quimby" should work. But it doesn't, only >> "quimby" works. > > I think that means that either I've misunderstood and misexplained > things, or there's a bug in Gnus. Try this: > (eq (gnus-server-to-method "quimby") (gnus-server-to-method "nntp:quimby"= )) > If they are eq, then presumably Gnus is using something other than > gnus-server-to-method to interpret the server names in group infos - > maybe this is a bug. If they are not eq, then I've misunderstood > something. They are eq. >> Or are you saying that with the above entry, "nntp:news.gnus.org" >> should work? Whee... > > No, I wouldn't expect that to work. > > > paul > kai --=20 Symbol's function definition is void: signature