Re: Something peculiar in my Topics setup

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Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> hput via writes:
>
>>          256: nnml:inco
>>          235: nnml:all-but-cron_
>
> If I understand correctly the root problem is that those groups are not
> shown by default even though they are not empty?

You got it.  In fact there are over 400 unread messages in 2 groups
under that topic but nothing shows in the top watch

> Have you put them on a level that does this?
No they are and have nearly alwas been on the default for mail  3 I
think it is.
>
> What level are those groups?

How can I tell other than the color?  I think they are level 3.  But
at least they are the same level they have nearly always been showing
a medium green color

> See
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Group-Levels.html

Er, and what am I to learn there?

I haven't had any dealings with levels in gnus for at least 15 to 18
years.  Or much longer, probably about the time of quassia gnus.

And yet groups have behaved the same all that time.  That is, if there
are unread messages, that fact is reflected in the topic where in the
groups are located.

I suspect nothing astonishing about the levels is going to come up.
But I have been wrong before and I mean no snottiness.