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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Unnecessary nntp reading?
Date: 06 Jun 1997 05:12:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k9k8l91a.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: John Griffith's message of 31 May 1997 12:14:05 +0200

John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> A) If I set gnus-activate-level to 1 and gnus-check-new-newsgroups to
>    nil I would suspect that the nntp server should not be read at all,
>    but it is - even if gnus-read-active-file is nil as well. However,
>    as I would expect, the nntp groups are not updated.  What is Gnus
>    looking for?  It's not looking for newgroups and it's not looking
>    for active information on my nntp groups.

If `gnus-read-active-file' is nil, the active file shouldn't be read.
Sounds like a bug.

> B) If I set gnus-activate-level to 1 and gnus-check-new-newsgroups to
>    nil and gnus-read-active-file to `some' then I would suspect that
>    (regardless of A above) the nntp groups' active information would
>    not be read - but they are.

The activation level is orthogonal to the issue of reading the active
file. 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


  reply	other threads:[~1997-06-06  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-31 10:14 John Griffith
1997-06-06  3:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-06-06  9:06   ` John Griffith
1997-06-06 17:41     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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