From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5890 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: why the '+' ? Date: 11 Apr 1996 02:35:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146428 1710 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA15678 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:01:42 -0700 Original-Received: from hler.ifi.uio.no (4867@hler.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.23]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 02:35:40 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by hler.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 02:35:37 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 18 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5890 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5890 Justin Zaglio writes: > Maybe I missed this answer a while back, but why does nnml, for > example, create two sets of groups: one with a + and one without > (e.g. nnml:mail.misc and nnml+justin:mail.misc). I'd like to do away > with one; it doesn't matter which. I tried setting > gnus-secondary-select-methods to '((nnml "")), but it doesn't like > this when moving articles between groups (complains about wrong types > when it expects a string and gets a nil). Gnus has altered the functions for generating group names slightly. If you have a server that's defined as `(nnml "justin")', the groups will now be named "nnml+justin:whatever". Just kill the old (un-justiny) groups. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."