Re: Gnus works `at it is' but isn't that a coincidence?

[Merciadri Luca]

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Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:

> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> writes:
>
>>> The primary method isn't prefixed. The secondary ones are.
>>
>> Prefixed? Huh? In which way? You meant that if method1 is stuff1 and
>> method2 is stuff2, stuff1 is not prefixed, and, thus, everything
>> calling stuff1 without prefix will call stuff1, but, to call stuff2,
>> one needs to add some prefix before operations?
>
> I suppose what he means is that running `M-x gnus' connects to the
> primary method, but giving a prefix argument `C-u M-x gnus' allows you
> to connect to the other methods.  You have to type in the method you
> want to connect to and the group name in the minibuffer.  
>
> I suppose this is a hang-over from the old days when people just used
> the local news server and they went to the other news servers only if
> the local server was down or something.  I don't think it makes sense
> any more to split things into a "primary" method and "secondary"
> methods.  But old habits die hard...
Okay. Thanks. I never used this switching, actually. 

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