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 6.9.2 Agent Categories
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 One of the main reasons to integrate the news transport layer into the
 newsreader is to allow greater control over what articles to download.
 There’s not much point in downloading huge amounts of articles, just to
 find out that you’re not interested in reading any of them.  It’s better
 to be somewhat more conservative in choosing what to download, and then
 mark the articles for downloading manually if it should turn out that
 you’re interested in the articles anyway.
 
    One of the more effective methods for controlling what is to be
 downloaded is to create a “category” and then assign some (or all)
 groups to this category.  Groups that do not belong in any other
 category belong to the ‘default’ category.  Gnus has its own buffer for
 creating and managing categories.
 
 Parameters::) and topic parameters (Topic Parameters) for an
 alternative approach to controlling the agent.  The only real difference
 is that categories are specific to the agent (so there is less to learn)
 while group and topic parameters include the kitchen sink.
 
    Since you can set agent parameters in several different places we
 have a rule to decide which source to believe.  This rule specifies that
 the parameter sources are checked in the following order: group
 parameters, topic parameters, agent category, and finally customizable
 variables.  So you can mix all of these sources to produce a wide range
 of behavior, just don’t blame me if you don’t remember where you put
 your settings.
 

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· Category Syntax             What a category looks like.
· Category Buffer             A buffer for maintaining categories.
· Category Variables          Customize’r’Us.
 

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