From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2622 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Why use secondary-select-methods? Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:38:22 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Message-ID: <848ys42y4h.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668987 15805 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:56:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:56:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:58 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1ece9.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1ece9.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.236.233) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1055623136 19735643 217.225.236.233 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NUAccOX1CdBNL637r4egrm3b9OE= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2762 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2762 Tue Jan 17 17:30:58 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2622 Archived-At: Hanak David writes: > I'm also using nnfolder to archive mail, and nntp to read a few newsgroups, > like g.e.g and gnus.ding. The point is that although I didn't register > nnfolder and nntp in gnus-secondary-select-methods, everything works fine, > I can read and post news, etc. But something inside my head can't stop > nagging at me, so I decided to ask: would something be better (quicker, > safer, ...) if I *did* set g-s-s-m? (Short of being able to browse all > newsgroups with 'A A' and 'A K' and stuff, which I don't care about.) The difference between foreign servers (which you are using) and secondary servers is that Gnus checks for new newsgroups on the secondary servers, but not on the foreign ones. Do you want Gnus to look for new newsgroups on the servers? The answer tells you what to do :-) -- This line is not blank.