From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11280 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Unnecessary nntp reading? Date: 06 Jun 1997 05:12:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151016 29348 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:56:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA13485 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 22:09:49 -0700 Original-Received: from deanna.miranova.com (root@deanna [206.190.83.1]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA24426 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 22:09:58 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA07814 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 22:10:03 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA24508 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:09:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 06:01:50 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1920 invoked by uid 504); 6 Jun 1997 04:01:48 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1917 invoked from network); 6 Jun 1997 04:01:48 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 1997 04:01:48 -0000 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@xyplex18.uio.no [129.240.154.38]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 06:01:45 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id FAA22045; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 05:12:03 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: John Griffith's message of 31 May 1997 12:14:05 +0200 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.1/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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