From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Z Maze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: no primary server ! Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:18:33 -0400 Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Message-ID: References: <87r7gztjml.fsf@koldfront.dk> <87d5sikpv3.fsf@koldfront.dk> 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 1138670807 25597 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:26:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:35 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer.monmouth.com!nntp.abs.net!news2.wam.umd.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEUGBgS83KhoOivUeFmC pXj4o39qeFZD1JPmAAACOklEQVR4nE2UQY/bIBCFkVPlbpX0bA2tz7sQcl5SlnsWc7cclv// E/oGjNNxokjz8eYxA7HwR9xLKQGRC4eQezqUj7KWnDOzAOB3EjaBKDl4KPARzkvpAIqoUTwI a2op6WVoeXHOlfgsnJPM1kl0SdMIFEJ0AaIJshiRhkCsHbC/51LycKDmgiw2jVJy9B9IDPNN U5NkSMQoR+c5/zTW3qjZgwg5ylpJ2YT4wubO7FEVEs0NhvPJaqzxDaDS2gUpGUjyDkau9NxB fKsmu4Ir2XSpwAjxYwfsfeqlbJwqcAwwcLINxGRWtIhhMEB7ZLoAJudd4aE42e4RCQDjYMXK CpS6XOBtNM7EVfPAbRgihfU08Sg9jqIr9G9JJuo70cCty66gwY6kzJ9xIygyJs7mDNQcSEUV iPSE1qt5mLgUkcGj8ExTbrvii2CwG3UCQkxUXDUPE03KIqPw8Iq33IBfUcbw/Ez9eeo8VvPr qrRNj2RU1DjeaN6cG8c6RKVNnTg+GIDWfAkPBVdK2jC84fCq4n4yik+VNICNtoPlPkScrKmh bPw+FIGSYmBrOUPeNfATjajPpFXtMl0Hvyt4imfzqDvC9zZ3cAEYvlt/ADq7rvDbNKj3RuxC B7gsZRWzbSAaymNXSPxjia8id1GmV6kUyjDMf9vd3daXAiYFd4GvXNzmaT7AspRyJnoif6Nn Ob8UC94fN6KybTSbvB0e46d3Tyzm+I7v4QWW5WGswZulXFNyv/4DGFvqYRv4BxSm28ZwQ4mv AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC X-Face: &OO..E]'&$Q?jm[7H$]lCS"t#FD[|jK.HfvP#![KZ`/,O)lQ(pE<2QS1i~K3+u\{Bh"(4h4G0W#R-F2zZNO6n\!8bk;tu%)f>y{C` P*^7yM`e/x"b1q[?^-9zxTp User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pbks6rnIH0dzQhrFHNB9RgGq4c4= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU Original-X-Trace: 1114525113 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 558 18.7.16.67 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5111 Original-Lines: 26 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5111 Tue Jan 17 17:34:35 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4970 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > At times I've sometimes found it aesthetically unpleasing that one > server is treated different than others (naming-wise, for instance), > but I admit that I never exerted any effort in obtaining a deep > understanding of the issues involved. Here I have three different backends (nnml, nntp, and nndsc, which reads MIT's quite dated 'discuss' boards), and it was also annoying that one of them got treated differently. It was worse that, a long long time ago, I set up gnus-select-method to '(nntp "news.mit.edu") but my primary usage is mail, so the thing with the "blessed" names only had a dozen or so interesting groups in it. I think if you're primarily using a single backend -- probably nntp, nnml, or nnimap -- then it makes sense to bless that as gnus-select-method. But if you've got several backends and multiple servers, you get to think a little less (and, admittedly, type a little more) if you use nnnil as your primary select method. (My work email now has gnus-select-method as nnimap, and it's great, aside from that my finger-macros got trained by years at MIT, so my "refile this article" command is 'B m nnml:mail. C-backspace C-backspace INBOX.group.name'. :-) --dzm