"Check whether a group has been activated or not.
If SCAN, request a scan of that group as well. If METHOD, use
that select method instead of determining the method based on the
-group name. If DONT-CHECK, don't check check whether the group
+group name. If DONT-CHECK, don't check whether the group
actually exists. If DONT-SUB-CHECK or DONT-CHECK, don't let the
backend check whether the group actually exists."
(let ((method (or method (inline (gnus-find-method-for-group group))))