From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25415 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jack Vinson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-group-list-all-matching reads mail Date: 27 Sep 1999 09:36:41 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162804 13842 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:13:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:13:24 +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 KAA03192 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:42:53 -0400 (EDT) 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 JAB15603; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:42:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:42:23 -0500 (CDT) 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 JAA18231 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:42:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from gatekeeper2.monsanto.com (gatekeeper2.monsanto.com [199.89.234.124]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03153 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:39:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by gatekeeper2.monsanto.com; id JAA14480; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:39:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mhstl1.monsanto.com(10.135.250.82) by gatekeeper2.monsanto.com via smap (V4.2) id xma014296; Mon, 27 Sep 99 09:39:25 -0500 Original-Received: from VINSON12 ([137.35.49.139]) by mhstl1.monsanto.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25445 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:42:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "25 Sep 1999 08:13:08 +0200" Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25415 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25415 >>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: LMI> Jack Vinson writes: >> If I am looking for newsgroups matching a certain expression, I generally >> do 'C-u 10 A M' to make sure Gnus queries the server for groups that I >> ignore. The function correctly queries every server it knows about (nntp, >> nnml, nnfolder). However, when it queries my nnml (mail) and nnfolder >> (archive) servers, it actually goes off and attempts to read new mail. Why >> should it do that? LMI> Gnus does the nn*-request-scan call at the same time that it asks for LMI> the list of groups. Is the -request-scan necessary? It seemed surprising to me that my mail was being read when all I wanted was a list of news groups. And why didn't it give me the list of groups from a foreign nntp server? Jack