From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11293 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 19:41:40 +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 1035151027 29438 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:57:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:57:07 +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 LAA19557 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:47:49 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA28778 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:47:58 -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 NAA07197 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 13:47:21 -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 19:59:41 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 4350 invoked by uid 504); 6 Jun 1997 17:59:39 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4347 invoked from network); 6 Jun 1997 17:59:39 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 1997 17:59:39 -0000 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@xyplex30.uio.no [129.240.154.50]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 19:59:36 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id TAA23484; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 19:41:47 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: John Griffith's message of 06 Jun 1997 11:06:28 +0200 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.1/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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