Re: Problem entering Foreign Groups

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> >>>>> Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>   > Are you saying that this is currently the case with Gnus 5.6.2x or
>   > that it will be the case or that it's your personal setting?
> 
> I meant my personal settings.  But don't listen to me, a major glitch
> in my mind has occurred.
> 
> Here's what I *really* do.  I think you will see it has no relation to
> what I said I did!
> 
> I've got two categories, `default' and `kai'.  Both have a true
> predicate.  There are no groups under the default category, and there
> is one group under the kai category.  

>From recent experiments I think the above really means that all groups
that aren't in 'Kai' are under the 'default' even though they don't
appear in the default list of groups.

>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Which I don't think matters
> anyway, because what I *really* do to control which groups are
> downloaded and which aren't, is levels: I have set
> gnus-agent-handle-level to 3, and I have set most of my newsgroups to
> level 4.  Only a few select groups are at level 3, and all articles
> from these groups are downloaded.

They are all downloaded because the default category is 'true'.  I
think you could control what groups don't get down loaded by assigning
them to a 'false' category too. (but more cumbersome)


> . . . . . . . . . . .   (The one group under the kai
> category has level 4, so it isn't downloaded.)
> 
> I'm sure that what I'm doing is pretty stupid (I think I can delete
> the `kai' category, no?), but amazingly it does the job for me.  I
> want to download all articles in a few groups and no articles in most
> groups.

One big plus to your system seems to be that you can change levels
much more easily than adjusting categories. So if you decide to
download some of the level 4 groups you can change to level 3 and
bingo.

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Harry Putnam  reader@newsguy.com