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Subject: Re: [Q] primary / secondary methods differences
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On 22 May 2001, Didier Verna wrote:

> Out of curiosity, does anybody know if the primary method
> and the secondary ones behave exactly the same way
> (specification syntax, behavior etc). Like, are there people
> using the primary for mails and stuff like that.

If you can do (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods FOO), then
you can also do (setq gnus-select-method FOO), and vice versa.  Was
this what you meant?

Of course, primary and secondary methods do not work in the same way:
when displaying groups, the prefix is omitted for primary (native)
groups.

kai
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