From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11285 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Griffith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Unnecessary nntp reading? Date: 06 Jun 1997 11:06:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151020 29373 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:57:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:57:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA15304 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 03:18:25 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA26031 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 03:18:34 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA01066 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 05:17:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:06:37 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 2769 invoked by uid 504); 6 Jun 1997 09:06:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2766 invoked from network); 6 Jun 1997 09:06:34 -0000 Original-Received: from filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (134.2.129.45) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 1997 09:06:34 -0000 Original-Received: (from griffith@localhost) by filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18268; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:06:28 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 06 Jun 1997 05:12:01 +0200 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.55/XEmacs 19.15 Original-Lines: 28 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1675 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11285 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11285 >> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: LMI> The activation level is orthogonal to the issue of reading the active LMI> file. OK. What does "activation level" mean? What does it do that subscribedness levels don't do? Does it just control which lines in the group buffer get updated? I haven't tried this, but does it mean that if my activation level say 2 and I have nntp groups on level 3 and gnus-read-active-file is `some' (and level 3 is a subscribed level - or even an unsubscribed level) then all the active file information will be retrieved but it just won't be shown? If so, then what is the purpose of activation level? If I don't want to see the level 3 groups I can just look at the level 2 and below groups. [Guessing wildly] Or does activation level just prevent foreign groups from being read? This I guess would be an advantage - if I have foreign nntp groups on level 5 I may not want their servers to be read but I may still want to read all of the groups on my primary server. In any case, I think the documentation for gnus-activate-level (and perhaps gnus-read-active-file) should explain better what it does. And/or define activation level in the terminology section.