From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78095 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?utf-8?Q?Sj=C3=B8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:13:15 +0100 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <871v1uaopg.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> References: <87zkokei6u.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <3waagj1nen.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87lj03v23l.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87zkojjioy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <8762r79fb0.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87ipv69ahl.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301087666 27237 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 21:14:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:14:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26406@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 25 22:14:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3EKr-0003Nv-6r for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:14:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3EKj-0004vS-QO; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:14:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3EKi-0004vJ-Kr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:14:12 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3EK1-0003Qt-Nz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:14:12 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3EK0-0003nC-Ap for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:13:28 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3EJz-0002t3-RF for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:13:27 +0100 Original-Received: from rain.gmane.org ([80.91.229.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:13:27 +0100 Original-Received: from asjo by rain.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:13:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rain.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: I Think You Suck, Enter the Super Peppermint Lounge (Psyched up Janis) X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78095 Archived-At: 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 -- "Ge mig en vinterdrog, ge mig allt du har Adam Sjøgren Kom nu jag är kroniskt låg, bara mörkret hörs" asjo@koldfront.dk