From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38547 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: self contained nnfolder Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 18:34:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87r8tqim9w.fsf@uwo.ca> <87zo8efblz.fsf@uwo.ca> <87ofotfv4x.fsf@uwo.ca> <871ylomi71.fsf@uwo.ca> <87heukl2nu.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174393 23099 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:26:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:26:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29111 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2001 16:35:08 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Sep 2001 16:35:08 -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 SAA16429; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:34:40 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id SAA12701; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:34:39 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 6CEBC20B0; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:34:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Dan Christensen In-Reply-To: <87heukl2nu.fsf@uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "Mon, 03 Sep 2001 11:22:45 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38547 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38547 Dan Christensen writes: > The general advice seems to be to use strings everywhere. No, at least not as far as I'm concerned. I wanted to say that strings everywhere would be the best *if it worked*. I guess most people do like (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnfolder ""))) and don't think about it any further. It's not clear to me whether it is better to document the current confusing situation, or whether the situation should be changed first, so that the documentation can be shorter. kai -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature