* gnus.texi (Foreign Groups): Added clarification of foreign groups.

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+2010-12-16  Teodor Zlatanov  <tzz@lifelogs.com>
+
+       * gnus.texi (Foreign Groups): Added clarification of foreign groups.
+
 2010-12-15  Andrew Cohen  <cohen@andy.bu.edu>
 
        * gnus.texi (The hyrex Engine): Say that this engine as obsolete.

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 @section Foreign Groups
 @cindex foreign groups
 
+If you recall how to subscribe to servers (@pxref{Finding the News})
+you will remember that @code{gnus-secondary-select-methods} and
+@code{gnus-select-method} let you write a definition in Emacs Lisp of
+what servers you want to see when you start up.  The alternate
+approach is to use foreign servers and groups.  ``Foreign'' here means
+they are not coming from the select methods.  All foreign server
+configuration and subscriptions are stored only in the
+@file{~/.newsrc.eld} file.
+
 Below are some group mode commands for making and editing general foreign
 groups, as well as commands to ease the creation of a few
 special-purpose groups.  All these commands insert the newly created