Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

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...