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Manual should clearly define "group name"

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Message #33 received at 9410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
Cc: 9410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Manual should clearly define "group name"
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:56:27 +0200

Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com> writes:

> In a section on general conventions (you'd say, e.g. "when the doc says
> `group name' it means a pattern like this.  The method+server part is
> present under these conditions").  If there's no section on general
> conventions, you should add one near the beginning of the manual.  I
> can think of plenty of general information that could/should go there
> and would improve the doc.

I've now added a couple of sentence to the Terminology section.

> *...looks up \<native\> in the manual...* so, if I've got that wrong,
> there's something I still don't get: how is "non-native" different from
> "secondary select method?"  Am I just using the wrong terminology?
> (here's something else for the general conventions).

There are three types of methods.  See the Terminology section.

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