Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

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

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> 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?

Ummmm, I guess the fact that there are three types of groups whereas I
was thinking of only two types...

>> 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!

I would be more than happy to not only make suggestions but also add
text etc.  However, the problem is I don't really understand the text
well enough to even begin adding or changing text!  Vicious cycle here
(for me).

> 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?

Okay, I didn't get that from the text but I guess that makes sense.  It
still doesn't really tell me how or why the distinction is made,
especially between secondary and foreign?  How/where are the latter
actually defined?

Anyway, in my case, this distinction does not appear to be anything I
need to worry about.  And I think the OP has solved his problem, in the
sense of identifying the boundary conditions for gnus for his use case.

Thanks for the help,
eric

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