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gnus: Subscription Methods

 
 1.4.2 Subscription Methods
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 What Gnus does when it encounters a new group is determined by the
 ‘gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method’ variable.
 
    This variable should contain a function.  This function will be
 called with the name of the new group as the only parameter.
 
    Some handy pre-fab functions are:
 
 ‘gnus-subscribe-zombies’
      Make all new groups zombies (Group Levels).  This is the
      default.  You can browse the zombies later (with ‘A z’) and either
      kill them all off properly (with ‘S z’), or subscribe to them (with
      ‘u’).
 
 ‘gnus-subscribe-randomly’
      Subscribe all new groups in arbitrary order.  This really means
      that all new groups will be added at “the top” of the group buffer.
 
 ‘gnus-subscribe-alphabetically’
      Subscribe all new groups in alphabetical order.
 
 ‘gnus-subscribe-hierarchically’
      Subscribe all new groups hierarchically.  The difference between
      this function and ‘gnus-subscribe-alphabetically’ is slight.
      ‘gnus-subscribe-alphabetically’ will subscribe new groups in a
      strictly alphabetical fashion, while this function will enter
      groups into its hierarchy.  So if you want to have the ‘rec’
      hierarchy before the ‘comp’ hierarchy, this function will not mess
      that configuration up.  Or something like that.
 
 ‘gnus-subscribe-interactively’
      Subscribe new groups interactively.  This means that Gnus will ask
      you about *all* new groups.  The groups you choose to subscribe to
      will be subscribed hierarchically.
 
 ‘gnus-subscribe-killed’
      Kill all new groups.
 
 ‘gnus-subscribe-topics’
      Put the groups into the topic that has a matching ‘subscribe’ topic
      parameter (Topic Parameters).  For instance, a ‘subscribe’
      topic parameter that looks like
 
           "nnml"
 
      will mean that all groups that match that regex will be subscribed
      under that topic.
 
      If no topics match the groups, the groups will be subscribed in the
      top-level topic.
 
    A closely related variable is
 ‘gnus-subscribe-hierarchical-interactive’.  (That’s quite a mouthful.)
 If this variable is non-‘nil’, Gnus will ask you in a hierarchical
 fashion whether to subscribe to new groups or not.  Gnus will ask you
 for each sub-hierarchy whether you want to descend the hierarchy or not.
 
    One common mistake is to set the variable a few paragraphs above
 (‘gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method’) to
 ‘gnus-subscribe-hierarchical-interactive’.  This is an error.  This will
 not work.  This is ga-ga.  So don’t do it.
 

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