From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Unnecessary nntp reading?
Date: 06 Jun 1997 19:41:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u3jbhbmz.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: John Griffith's message of 06 Jun 1997 11:06:28 +0200
John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> OK. What does "activation level" mean?
It means that Gnus does the math to figure out how many unread
articles there are in groups. Unactivated groups are listed with "*"
in the group buffer.
> What does it do that subscribedness levels don't do? Does it just
> control which lines in the group buffer get updated?
Yes.
> I haven't tried this, but does it mean that if my activation level say
> 2 and I have nntp groups on level 3 and gnus-read-active-file is
> `some' (and level 3 is a subscribed level - or even an unsubscribed
> level) then all the active file information will be retrieved but it
> just won't be shown?
Yes.
> If so, then what is the purpose of activation level? If I don't want
> to see the level 3 groups I can just look at the level 2 and below
> groups.
Yes, that's true.
The activation level is mostly irrelevant -- unless you have set
`gnus-read-active-file' to nil. In which case it is relevant.
> [Guessing wildly] Or does activation level just prevent foreign groups
> from being read?
No, that's controlled by `gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups'.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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1997-05-31 10:14 John Griffith
1997-06-06 3:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-06 9:06 ` John Griffith
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