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I am using agent to cover the remote news servers (I hate the low
speed of the Internet). But in unplugged mode, gnus also unplugs the
local mail. Now I defadvice gnus-request-scan which make life a bit
easier. 

But I am thinking to implement a parameter for mail-source, say
`:level'.  Level 1 is local, i.e. gnus will fetch the mail source
whenever it is plugged or not; level 3 (default) is remote, i.e. gnus
fetch the mail source only if it is plugged; level 6 is unactive
source, i.e. gnus does not fetch the mail unless in some special
cases.

For this reason, `:level' is a common parameter, i.e. each type of
mail source has this parameter. Therefore, put it in a common keywords
list variable, named `mail-source-common-keywords'. Another example in
this variable like `:ignore-error', which is mentioned in a previous
message of mine.

Any suggestion?

-- 
Shenghuo