From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78090 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:58:21 +0000 Message-ID: <87zkojjioy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87zkokei6u.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <3waagj1nen.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87lj03v23l.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301079979 16384 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 19:06:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:06:19 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26401@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 25 20:06:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3CKo-00053B-Vh for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:06:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3CK2-0004BR-DX; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:05:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3CK1-0004BJ-95 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:05:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3CJz-00030m-Oh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:05:21 -0500 Original-Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3CJx-0001PM-4f for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:05:17 +0100 Original-Received: from [85.210.134.252] (helo=localhost) by vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3CJs-0006ml-KN for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:05:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Riley's message of "Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:04:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78090 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > Eric S Fraga 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). I think this distinction mattered more when connecting to the network, especially with dial-up, was a big deal? We sometimes forget that gnus has been around for quite a long time... although maybe not as long as some of us have been using email, mind you (e.g. any of you remember using uucp style addresses host1!host2!...!user? ;-)! -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.16