Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:05:42 +0000, Eric wrote:
>
>> Adam, thanks for the pointer to the relevant place in the manual.  My
>> guess was basically completely wrong.  Oh well...
>
>> However, I am not sure the documentation really explains anything at
>> all.
>
> How did you then get to the understanding that you were wrong, then?
>
>> It's the kind of documentation that makes sense if you already know
>> what it is telling you and otherwise just sounds like a circular
>> definition... and, unfortunately, there are quite a few sections like
>> this in the gnus manual.
>
> I am sure suggestions for improvements are very welcome!
>
> What I got from reading it is that groups from servers in select-method
> and secondary-select-methods are called native and other groups are
> called foreign. Seems quite straightforward?
>

Except they the are not. Since the gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups
applies to groups created from secondary select methods.


>> In any case, this definitely doesn't help me (or the OP maybe)
>> understand why the default activation level for native groups is 6 and
>> for foreign is 4; and what about secondary...?  And how any of this
>> relates to agents?
>
> I don't use any of those thingamajigs, so I haven't got the foggiest.
> Sorry I can't be of any help.

If you had, maybe you could understand the issue above about the foreign
groups naming convention.

>
>   Best regards,
>
>     Adam

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