From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1695
Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user
Subject: Re: gnus-group-post-news defaults to mail
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 11:16:41 +0100
Organization: http://purl.org/harder/
Message-ID: <m3ptrl6sfq.fsf@defun.localdomain>
References: <i563cojeax7.fsf@mao.acc.umu.se> <m3smwj88vc.fsf@defun.localdomain>
 <i56smwj801z.fsf@mao.acc.umu.se> <m38yyathfn.fsf@defun.localdomain>
 <i56r8c14x71.fsf@mao.acc.umu.se> <84adippx90.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668392 12375 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:46:32 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:46:32 +0000 (UTC)
Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:33 2006
Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
X-Face: ^RrvqCr7c,P$zTR:QED"@h9+BTm-"fjZJJ-3=OU7.)i/K]<.J88}s>'Z_$r;<N5ksn~%wJ@2pjF}="tV;FBsdpFarSWA<oYkZsViGf:F^SD-KXhvFxh;~]?)SWm~+u};0=x}<vOm&5J+?]yB2d]q4x8\0g7SX
Mail-Copies-To: never
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50
 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:u+3YlZ5eSotn8yzhPE+M/AcOYr0=
Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.215.224.214
Original-X-Trace: 1041157081 dtext01.news.tele.dk 47398 195.215.224.214
Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk
Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1835
Original-Lines: 23
X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1835   Tue Jan 17 17:29:33 2006
Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1695
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1695>

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> stktrc <stktrc@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hmm, what is your value of `gnus-select-method'?  And what do these
>>> forms evaluate to:
>>
>> (nnnil "")
>
> Ah, I also have this, and I've also wondered why does `a' in the
> Group buffer compose a mail and not a news article.

But how do you get news if you don't set `gnus-select-method'?

> Maybe nnnil is the culprit?

Yes.  But I don't understand how it got that value -- did you set it
explicitly?  

If you look at the definition of `gnus-select-method' in gnus.el I don't
see how it could default to nnnil.