Subject: 23.2; nnnil not documented

From: Tom Tromey <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:24:29 -0700

I happened across the Gnus "nnnil" backend recently.
This is not documented in the Gnus manual.
I think it ought to be.

In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2010-06-03 on x86-07.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.10802000
configured using `configure  '--build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=atom -fasynchronous-unwind-tables''

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