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 6 Select Methods
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 A “foreign group” is a group not read by the usual (or default) means.
 It could be, for instance, a group from a different NNTP server, it
 could be a virtual group, or it could be your own personal mail group.
 
    A foreign group (or any group, really) is specified by a “name” and a
 “select method”.  To take the latter first, a select method is a list
 where the first element says what back end to use (e.g., ‘nntp’,
 ‘nnspool’, ‘nnml’) and the second element is the “server name”.  There
 may be additional elements in the select method, where the value may
 have special meaning for the back end in question.
 
    One could say that a select method defines a “virtual server”—so we
 do just that (Server Buffer).
 
    The “name” of the group is the name the back end will recognize the
 group as.
 
    For instance, the group ‘soc.motss’ on the NNTP server
 ‘some.where.edu’ will have the name ‘soc.motss’ and select method ‘(nntp
 "some.where.edu")’.  Gnus will call this group
 ‘nntp+some.where.edu:soc.motss’, even though the ‘nntp’ back end just
 knows this group as ‘soc.motss’.
 
    The different methods all have their peculiarities, of course.
 

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