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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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