Re: Why need a prefix when sending to a foreign group?

[Jack Vinson <vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>]

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

===
If this variable is `current', Gnus will use the "current" select
method when posting.  If it is nil (which is the default), Gnus will
use the native posting method of the server.
===

Jan> I read this

Jan> current == Current primary select method.
Jan> nil = native method of the server BELONGING TO THIS GROUP

I have never looked at this doc string, but it is rather ambiguous.  It
sounds like "current" should use the select method of the current group
when posting.  But nil makes it sound like it will also use the current
server, not the _primary_ server as Lars intends this to mean.

This gets back to the recent suggestion of someone else to get rid of the
idea of primary, secondary and foreign servers.  A server is a server.  If
I read news from server X, I probably want to post news to server X
(configurable of course).  Why does there need to be a primary server at
all?  

It becomes painfully obvious that there are problems with the current setup
when one attempts to use two different mail servers (one for each mailbox),
instead of one mail server that handles all mailboxes.


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Jack Vinson
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