Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:45:15 +0100, Richard wrote:
>
>> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>
>>> 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?
>
>> Except they the are not. Since the gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups
>> applies to groups created from secondary select methods.
>
> So the manual is wrong and you have a better understanding - which puts
> you in an excellent position to improve the manual. Thanks in advance!
>
>   Best regards,
>
>     Adam


This discussion is to clarify how it is, how it should or maybe just how
to improve it. If I knew how it should and could work for the masses
perhaps I could do this. As it is I see this discussion with Eric as a
valuable "real use" exercise and discussion in honing Gnus to work
better for the end user. I dont have the solutions just on my own
limited experience so changing the manual would seem a tad premature
considering its me learning how gnus works. It never ceases to amaze me
how others use the same features. All I know is that at this minute
using agent in a cost restricted "mostly disconnected" arena its
confusing and a few things simply dont work (see multiple IMAP selection
methods mentioned earlier).

In the case above how would I correct the manual? Perhaps the code is
wrong? Perhaps the concept is wrong. I dont know. What I do know is that
its not clear and the discussion with Eric is helping to clarify end
user use cases which might lead to either bug fixes, manual changes
and/or functionality redesign.

Possibly you have some comments relevant to the agent and activation
levels which might help?

Thanks in advance!