Re: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98 is released

[Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu>]

>>"K" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

    K> Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> writes:
    >> Eh?  pGnus 0.97 still can't keep track of my subscribed groups
    >> properly,

    K> I don't remember that Gnus was subscribing or unsubscribing any
    K> group without me explicitly saying so.  Not in the last year or
    K> two.  Hm.  Strange.

For example:

I've got a lot of groups that I once subscribed to, and that I can
verify are mentioned in an apparently proper way in my .newsrc*.eld
file, that will never *ever* show up in the group buffer, no matter
what commands I try, unless it's `A A' (or whatever it is to download
and list the entire active file).  In the latter case all groups show
up as "killed".  If you try to subscribe to one of those groups lost
in the void, you get told that you are already a subscriber, so you
can't get these groups out of the void.  They are all in .newsrc*.eld
as level 5 or 6 (I think), but as I read the documentation, no matter
what my various `gnus-activate-level' `gnus-subscribe-level' type of
variables might be set to (i'm using reasonable though not default
values), I should get them all in the group buffer by typing '9 L',
and I don't.

Working with the server buffer, you get the same kind of confusion
over what groups are actually there, what are subscribed, and what
appears on your screen, with what designation, what manipulation you
are permitted to perform on them, etc.