Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> 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 ;) ...
>>
>
> I spoke too soon. Yes this "activates" the groups. But it also means
> they now, when plugged, fetch using the default "g" rather than when I
> specifically WANT these less important groups using something C-u 5
> g. Theres some kind of functionality overlap between plugged, activated
> and subscribed which seems to defeatt my use case.
>
> To reiterate
>
> I have some "higher level" levels for things like gaming nntp group for
> example. Lets say level 5. Imap and some others are at level 3.
>
> I set gnus-activate-level to 3.
>
> When "plugged" hitting "g" will now only fetch for level and below (its
> back to front IMO since more important groups have lower levels).This is
> great. If I want the advocacy wars etc in pc.gaming or whatever I hit
> C-u 5 g. Gnus then fetches this for me. But the important and correct
> thing is that it doesnt fetch the less important stuff using default
> "g". All fine.
>
> The problem however here is that when starting gnus *unplugged* these
> level 5 groups do not "activate" ie show the articles counts etc, even
> though its local. They *are* visible however since they are
> subscribed. IMO they should activate when unplugged.
>
> If I set the gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups to 3 to activate them in
> unplugged by default then default "g" also fetches them. This is not
> desired behaviour when really roaming.
>
> Yes, when unplugged I *can* C-u 5 g to activate them, if their levels
> are 5, but this step should be unnecessary.
>
> I think this makes sense...
>

The above description of usage can be distilled to this suggestion:-

All groups *belonging to agentised servers* should be active when
unplugged regardless of their level. Not when plugged since otherwise
"g" will fetch for them - and this we do not want.

Does that make sense?