Setting nnslashdot levels?

Setting nnslashdot levels?

[Emerick Rogul]

Two questions about slashdot and setting levels:

1) I have a slashdot topic configured and my slashdot groups showing
up beneath it.  The groups are showing up as level 3 (the default
subscribed level); I'd like to instead have it so that all nnslashdot
groups (or all groups under that topic) are level 5, say.  How can I
configure that?

2) Even better would be if the slashdot webserver was not contacted at
_all_ (not even at gnus startup) until I specifically requested it.
Can this be configured?  Is it just the same as above?

Thanks,

-Emerick
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Re: Setting nnslashdot levels?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Emerick Rogul <emerick@cs.bu.edu> writes:

> 1) I have a slashdot topic configured and my slashdot groups showing
> up beneath it.  The groups are showing up as level 3 (the default
> subscribed level); I'd like to instead have it so that all nnslashdot
> groups (or all groups under that topic) are level 5, say.  How can I
> configure that?

There is no predefined functionality for doing this.

> 2) Even better would be if the slashdot webserver was not contacted at
> _all_ (not even at gnus startup) until I specifically requested it.
> Can this be configured?  Is it just the same as above?

If you don't have the slashdot server in your secondary select
methods, the groups will probably not be activated.

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Re: Setting nnslashdot levels?

[Per Abrahamsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Emerick Rogul <emerick@cs.bu.edu> writes:
> 
> > 1) I have a slashdot topic configured and my slashdot groups showing
> > up beneath it.  The groups are showing up as level 3 (the default
> > subscribed level); I'd like to instead have it so that all nnslashdot
> > groups (or all groups under that topic) are level 5, say.  How can I
> > configure that?
> 
> There is no predefined functionality for doing this.

But if you don't want to see the /. groups in the, you can press RET
on the /. topic header to hide them.

> > 2) Even better would be if the slashdot webserver was not contacted at
> > _all_ (not even at gnus startup) until I specifically requested it.
> > Can this be configured?  Is it just the same as above?
> 
> If you don't have the slashdot server in your secondary select
> methods, the groups will probably not be activated.

But when will new groups be found, then?

Is it possible to mark a server as "denied" per default, until you
explicitly open it?

Re: Setting nnslashdot levels?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> > > 2) Even better would be if the slashdot webserver was not contacted at
> > > _all_ (not even at gnus startup) until I specifically requested it.
> > > Can this be configured?  Is it just the same as above?
> > 
> > If you don't have the slashdot server in your secondary select
> > methods, the groups will probably not be activated.
> 
> But when will new groups be found, then?

That's a good question.

> Is it possible to mark a server as "denied" per default, until you
> explicitly open it?

(push '((nnslashdot "") denied) gnus-opened-servers)

But un-denying the server means going into the server buffer and
`R'-ing there.

I have nnslashdot as a secondary select method, and even though
Slashdot is often down, it doesn't really bother me much.  When Gnus
hangs, I just `C-g' past it and continue with my work...

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