From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: having a problem with group subscription and unsubscription
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:29:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgu6vu7k.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3v94u62vy.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com>
John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> writes:
> Hi. I am having problems with subscribing and unsubscribing to new
> groups.
>
> I have
> '(gnus-browse-subscribe-newsgroup-method
> 'gnus-subscribe-hierarchically)
> '(gnus-subscribe-hierarchical-interactive t)
> '(gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-hierarchically)
>
> Now when I start gnus, I get the buffer which contains the groups I
> am subscribed to. Now, what I have been doing which is probably wrong
> is to hit ^ to go to the server buffer, find the server I want to
> look at and hit enter. Then the active file is read and I get a K for
> each group on the server and nothing for each group I am subscribed
> to. The variables I mentioned above seem to have no effect, so wha am
> I doing wrong here?
I think those subscription settings only take effect when automatically
scanning for _new_ newsgroups, using `gnus-check-new-newsgroups'. That
process doesn't run every time you open the *Server* buffer.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-29 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-28 12:26 John Covici
2021-07-28 13:05 ` dick
2021-07-29 0:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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