From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:13:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871v1uaopg.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipv69ahl.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:05:42 +0000, Eric wrote:
> Adam, thanks for the pointer to the relevant place in the manual. My
> guess was basically completely wrong. Oh well...
> However, I am not sure the documentation really explains anything at
> all.
How did you then get to the understanding that you were wrong, then?
> It's the kind of documentation that makes sense if you already know
> what it is telling you and otherwise just sounds like a circular
> definition... and, unfortunately, there are quite a few sections like
> this in the gnus manual.
I am sure suggestions for improvements are very welcome!
What I got from reading it is that groups from servers in select-method
and secondary-select-methods are called native and other groups are
called foreign. Seems quite straightforward?
> In any case, this definitely doesn't help me (or the OP maybe)
> understand why the default activation level for native groups is 6 and
> for foreign is 4; and what about secondary...? And how any of this
> relates to agents?
I don't use any of those thingamajigs, so I haven't got the foggiest.
Sorry I can't be of any help.
Best regards,
Adam
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-24 12:18 Richard Riley
2011-03-24 13:55 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-25 10:53 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-25 12:03 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-25 15:04 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-25 15:23 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-25 18:34 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-25 15:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-25 19:21 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-03-25 21:05 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-25 21:13 ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2011-03-26 7:45 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-26 12:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-03-27 7:15 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-27 7:25 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-27 17:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-28 15:03 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-28 17:07 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-28 16:33 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-28 18:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-29 7:26 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-29 17:06 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-26 7:43 ` Richard Riley
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