From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27775 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnslashdot question Date: 06 Dec 1999 05:18:10 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <761z966rhr.fsf@ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164739 26286 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:45:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00663 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:11:30 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAB13186; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:11:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 05 Dec 1999 22:11:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01263 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:11:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [193.69.4.139]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00652 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:10:52 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA03413 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 05:12:58 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 944453577 32619 193.69.4.148 (6 Dec 1999 04:12:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Dec 1999 04:12:57 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Robert Wyatt's _Shleep_: "Blues in Bob Minor" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > I've started using nnslashdot and it's working. I added a > gnus-secondary-select-method for nnslashdot and mentioned in the > documentation. I changed my gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method from > gnus-subscribe-zombies to gnus-subscribe-topics. I created a 'slashdot' > topic and set its parameter as described in the mail list. When I fetch > mail/news nothing special happens unless I press "F" and then slashdot groups > appear in the topic. > > Some questions: > > 1) Is what I described above the recommended way of incorporating nnslashdot? Yes. > 2) How do I remove slashdot groups that I am not interested in reading? C-k? It'll just reappear later. Perhaps there should be a `nnslashdot-purge-old-groups'. Hm. No, `G DEL' should work. Fix in Gnus v5.8.3. > 3) Having changed my gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method, how are other new > groups treated when they appear on my news server? using > gnus-subscribe-zombies, I never did anything special to check for new > newsgroups. I would just periodically press A-z to check for any zombies. > What will be different now? All new groups will be subscribed on level 3 in the top-level topic. (That is, except for the groups that match some `subscription' topic parameter.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen