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Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> Richmond writes:
>
>> If I have in .gnus a structure like
>>
>>   (setq gnus-select-method
>>
>> and then subsequently
>>
>>   (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>
>> How do I remove the first server from the list? Should I just replace it
>> with the second server? I think the article numbers would be messed up.
>
> You can set gnus-select-method to '(nnnil) - then it will do nothing,
> and everything else will be "secondary" select-methods. This way you
> also avoid having the special case for the first method.

I wonder why simple 'nil is not accepted as well: it's extremely
confusing.

Thanks,
-- Sergey Organov