Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:58:21 +0000, Eric wrote:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> [...]

>>> I think I do understand.  You may wish to set not only
>>> gnus-activate-level but also gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups to 5?  It
>>> defaults to 4, I believe.
>> 
>> That works yes! Wow. Thanks!  But "foreign group"? Why are they foreign
>> groups? They are groups attached to nntp servers defined in select
>> methods. Ye gods its complicated ;) ...

> Somebody will correct me but I think /foreign/ groups refer to those
> where the actual content is stored remotely (nntp, nnimap) versus
> locally (nnml, nnmaildir).

The manual says:

,----[ 10.4 Terminology - http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_366.html ]
|  native
|      Gnus will always use one method (and back end) as the native, or
|      default, way of getting news.
| 
|  foreign
|      You can also have any number of foreign groups active at the same
|      time. These are groups that use non-native non-secondary back ends
|      for getting news.
| 
|  secondary
|      Secondary back ends are somewhere half-way between being native and
|      being foreign, but they mostly act like they are native.
`----


  Best regards,

    Adam

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