Re: Position of mail in *Groups* buffer

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Nov 09 2005, Bastien wrote:

> Reiner Steib writes:
[...]
>> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Group Levels") ]
>> |    It is recommended that you keep all your mail groups (if any) on
>> | quite low levels (e.g. 1 or 2).
>> `----
>
> Any hints about the "why" ?  I don't see any justification of this in
> the manual.

I think it's because `gnus-no-server' activates groups at level 1 and
2, see the internal function `gnus-no-server-1':

,----[ <f1> f gnus-no-server-1 RET ]
| gnus-no-server-1 is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-start.el'.
| (gnus-no-server-1 &optional arg slave)
| 
| Read network news.
| If arg is a positive number, Gnus will use that as the
| startup level.  If arg is nil, Gnus will be started at level 2.
| If arg is non-nil and not a positive number, Gnus will
| prompt the user for the name of an NNTP server to use.
| As opposed to `gnus', this command will not connect to the local server.
`----

More precise, it should read "`gnus-level-default-subscribed' minus
one" instead of "2".

> So far I've been setting mail groups at different levels - including 3
> and 4 - and everything works quite well.  
>
> *Except* that, from time to time, new mails are marked as old mails
> (it happens in very large mail groups and even with mail groups at
> level 1 & 2)...
>
> Could this strange behavior be related to the above recommandation?

Probably not.

Bye, Reiner.
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