From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8431 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: I don't grok server names and parameters Date: 18 Oct 1996 19:26:26 +0200 Sender: grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Message-ID: Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148591 12102 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:16:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 1600 invoked from smtpd); 18 Oct 1996 17:50:04 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 18 Oct 1996 17:50:03 -0000 Original-Received: from fbi-mail.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (fbi-mail.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.40]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:29:24 +0200 Original-Received: from lucy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de by fbi-mail.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP (Sendmail 8.7.6/UniDo 3.17) id TAA19020; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:29:21 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: by lucy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id TAA27328; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:26:27 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.52/Emacs 19.31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8431 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8431 Hi, when I type "G m" to add a foreign group, then type "personalnews.germany.eu.net" for my NNTP server, nntp for the method, and "alt.test" for the group name, said group will appear in the listing of the groups like so: nntp+personalnews.germany.eu.net:alt.test ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What can I do to have Gnus display the indicated first part of the group name as something shorter, say "nntp+ISP" or "ISP"? I'm assuming this has something to do with servers, but somehow I was unable to do this. It's got to be rather simple, but I seem to have a blind spot. Any help very much appreciated, kai -- Life is hard and then you die.