Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> Just to re-iterate : I feel it makes sense to activate ALL subscribed
>>>> groups which are "agentised" since there is no network access
>>>
>>> Actually, I wouldn't want this.  Offline, I often use a very slow laptop
>>> and it can take quite a while to activate all groups.  I think changing
>>> the levels of the groups is easy enough, once we get past the
>>> distinction between native/foreign/secondary groups.
>>
>> Me too :  a netbook with an n550. That said you understand my issue with
>> a "C u 5 g" type activation which forces re-reads from non agentised
>> groups? Potentially very expensive when facing roaming charges.
>
> yes, I understand your issue with this.  
>
> what I don't understand is why, if I am using gnus *unplugged*, doing
> "C-u 5 g" actually queries any online servers as opposed to querying the
> agent.  This does seem to be wrong in some way...  it doesn't bother me
> because when I'm offline, I am indeed *offline* and the queries time out
> immediately (with not cost incurred).

Gnus itself is never unplugged. Only certain servers... Heh ;) I think
there is an overlap between the meaning of the word "online" and
"activated". But I'm still not 100% sure .. and am certainly no closer
to being confident enough to offer docstring updates. As is usual with
Gnus I would bet a penny to a pound that there exists already the right
spell to make it work as I feel it should - its just a question of
someone with enough understanding of what it all means to explain it.