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Subject: Re: gnus-auto-subscribed-groups (was: more Gnus questions)
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Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu> writes:

>   >> 1. What is the relationship between gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method
>   >> and gnus-auto-subscribed-groups?
> 
>   Lars> Groups that match the latter will not be handled by the former.
> 
> Could this be documented in these variables' documentation strings (what
> is reached by "C-h v")?  This was not apparent from the documentation.

Yup.  Fix in Gnus v5.2.27.

> Also, it seems there is something funny here.  Why does
> gnus-auto-subscribed-groups even exist when there is the more general
> mechanism?  How does one specify where to put the new groups subscribed
> via gnus-auto-subscribed-groups or what level to give them?

Groups that match that regexp are subscribed using
`gnus-subscribe-options-newsgroup-method', which defaults to
subscribing the group alphabetically.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen