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From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have two instances of the same group (from the same news server)?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:10:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tdqmtn9.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87si6636ko.fsf@moondust.localdomain>

N. writes:

> Thanks Adam, that did indeed give me what I was looking for. (I called
> the additional server "Dusty" on which I will be reading the ancient
> news.)

Cool (good name!)

> That leads to a supplemental question: is there a way to rename an
> existing server? I'm not even seeing a way of deleting existing servers
> that are no longer used -- they seem to take on a phantom nature and
> eternally haunt my server buffer.

I don't know. You can kill servers in the *Server* buffer, but I can't
remember ever trying it.

If everything fails, you can try manual surgery on your ~/.newsrc.eld -
usually not that fun.


  Best regards,

    Adam

-- 
 "It seems like the finals for "least helpful answer          Adam Sjøgren
  on a mailing list" are coming up again."               asjo@koldfront.dk


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      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-22 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-21 14:07 N. Jackson
2015-09-21 15:30 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-09-21 15:33   ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-09-22 13:51   ` N. Jackson
2015-09-22 14:10     ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]

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