Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Martin Jørgensen <unoder.spam@spam.jay.net> writes:
>> (setq gnus-select-method '((nntp "192.168.1.100")))

Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
> I think this should be
>     (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "192.168.1.100"))

Yes.  What Martin needs to bear in mind is that the distinguished
select method exists alone in one (singularly-named) variable, hence
it is exactly one list.  Other select methods are contained
collectively in another (plurally-named) variable, gnus-secondary-
select-methods, and it is therefore a list of lists -- so if it
contains a single such method, the list-enclosing parentheses must in
turn be encased in another pair of parentheses, within which other
such method lists might appear.