Re: What's NOV? Should gnus-nov-is-evil be set to t?

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

Allan Gottlieb writes:
> Here, however, is a slightly edited version of the first part
> that may be slightly more clear.
>
> `gnus-nov-is-evil'
>      This one must _always_ be `nil' (which is the default).

I assume that should be "This variable is obsolete, it should
always be nil (which is the default)."  Otherwise, what's the
point of a variable which should never be changed?

Might also be an idea to insert code which gives a warning if it
is non-nil.  The warning could display the doc string you gave:

>     If, for
>     example, you wish to not use NOV (see below) with the `nntp' back
>     end (*note Crosspost Handling::), set `nntp-nov-is-evil' to a
>     non-`nil' value instead of setting this.  But you normally do not
>     need to set `nntp-nov-is-evil' since Gnus by itself will detect
>     whether the NNTP server supports NOV.  Anyway, grabbing article
>     headers from the NNTP server will not be very fast if you tell
>     Gnus not to use NOV.

-- 
Hallvard