Re: nnslashdot

[Matt Pharr <mmp@graphics.stanford.edu>]

Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
> Lars did a trick `gnus-subscribe-topics' here. 
> 
> I use it as following,
> 1. (setq gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-topics)
> 2. (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode) ;; be sure using topics
> 3. `T n' to create a topic named "slashdot"
> 4. `G p' on the topic
> 5. Put ((subscribe . "nnslashdot")) as topic parameters
> 
> For details, check the info node.

Yes, that did it--thanks!  Two questions and another bug now.

Question: I'd like to combine the behavior of gnus-subscribe-randomly and
gnus-subscribe-topics.  That is, now that all the slashdot groups are
appearing in my slashdot topic, I'd like to have the new ones appear at the 
top rather than the bottom as they do now.  Anyone have any ideas?

Question: Now with the addition of the slashdot backend, I have some
backends that I want to check every once in a while and some that I want to 
check every single time I hit 'g'.  Is group levels the way to do this?
Are there other options--what if I wanted to check slashdot no more than
once per 6 hours, say?

Bug: the first time I enter a slashdot group, all is well--I can read
articles, read comments, etc.  But then later on, when gnus reports new
messages, if I try to enter the group it immediately says "No unread news"
and reports no new messages.  It does this quite quickly, so I suspect that 
it isn't even contacting slashdot.org.

-matt
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Matt Pharr                                   mmp@graphics.stanford.edu
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