If you want to change servers, you should use `gnus-select-method'.
See the documentation to that variable.")
-;; Don't touch this variable.
-(defvar gnus-nntp-service "nntp"
- "NNTP service name (\"nntp\" or 119).
-This is an obsolete variable, which is scarcely used. If you use an
-nntp server for your newsgroup and want to change the port number
-used to 899, you would say something along these lines:
-
- (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp \"my.nntp.server\" (nntp-port-number 899)))")
-
(defcustom gnus-nntpserver-file "/etc/nntpserver"
"A file with only the name of the nntp server in it."
:group 'gnus-files
;;;###autoload (custom-autoload 'gnus-select-method "gnus"))
(defcustom gnus-select-method
- (condition-case nil
- (nconc
- (list 'nntp (or (condition-case nil
- (gnus-getenv-nntpserver)
- (error nil))
- (when (and gnus-default-nntp-server
- (not (string= gnus-default-nntp-server "")))
- gnus-default-nntp-server)
- "news"))
- (if (or (null gnus-nntp-service)
- (equal gnus-nntp-service "nntp"))
- nil
- (list gnus-nntp-service)))
- (error nil))
+ (list 'nntp (or (gnus-getenv-nntpserver)
+ (when (and gnus-default-nntp-server
+ (not (string= gnus-default-nntp-server "")))
+ gnus-default-nntp-server)
+ "news"))
"Default method for selecting a newsgroup.
This variable should be a list, where the first element is how the
news is to be fetched, the second is the address.