Re: Groups will not stay in topic

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

>>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

    > On 02/14/23 11:06 AM, Colin Baxter wrote:
    
    >> I have discovered that if I look at the Information (GE) for
    >> the groups that wont stay in a topic they all begin
    >> "nntp+feedbase ..."  The well behaved groups don't. And if I
    >> move nntp news groups to their own topic they have still jumped
    >> out after a new session.
    >> 
    >> I don't understand why the nntp group are different.

    > Is the nntp server set as your `gnus-select-method'? Whichever
    > server is in there has "unprefixed" group names: everything else
    > gets eg nnimap+MyServer:INBOX, but the groups on your primary
    > select method don't start with "nntp+feedbase". If that's the
    > case, then my guess is that there's some inconsistency somewhere
    > between prefixed and unprefixed names: probably you are moving
    > prefixed names into the topic, but the next time you start Gnus
    > it is using the unprefixed names, so thinks they don't belong to
    > that topic.

That looks to be what's happening. The "gnus-secondary-select-methods"
indeed pull in only the nntp+feedbase groups. Thanks to you, at least I
now know the cause  of the issue.

Thank you very much.

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.