Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Just to re-iterate : I feel it makes sense to activate ALL subscribed
>>> groups which are "agentised" since there is no network access
>>
>> Actually, I wouldn't want this.  Offline, I often use a very slow laptop
>> and it can take quite a while to activate all groups.  I think changing
>> the levels of the groups is easy enough, once we get past the
>> distinction between native/foreign/secondary groups.
>
> Me too :  a netbook with an n550. That said you understand my issue with
> a "C u 5 g" type activation which forces re-reads from non agentised
> groups? Potentially very expensive when facing roaming charges.

yes, I understand your issue with this.  

what I don't understand is why, if I am using gnus *unplugged*, doing
"C-u 5 g" actually queries any online servers as opposed to querying the
agent.  This does seem to be wrong in some way...  it doesn't bother me
because when I'm offline, I am indeed *offline* and the queries time out
immediately (with not cost incurred).

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.16