Re: q0.12: agent comments

[Felix Lee <flee@teleport.com>]

> > how do I tell agent I only want ten groups fetched every
> > time I "J s"?  my newsrc has a couple hundred groups that
> > I'm vaguely interested in but don't read often.
> Fiddle with the categories.

as far as I can tell, fiddling with categories only affects
article fetching, not overview-fetching, right?  I really
don't need to spend an hour waiting for overview data from
300 groups I rarely read.

> > any chance the agent will become unified with the cache?  I
> > find it kinda odd to have both.
> They are orthogonal.

yeah, but they do some of the same things.

I should have said instead.. any chance the agent will gain
most of the functionality of the cache?  I mean like, right
now I have agent, asynch, backlog, and cache enabled, as
parts of an ad-hoc plan to minimize waiting for slow ppp
traffic.  and so I can end up with 2 or more copies of the
same article stored in various disk and memory locations.

really, all I need is agent, once it gets async data fetch
and semi-intelligent expire.  (eg, for ! marks, instead of
putting the article into the cache, mark it as not to be
expired.)
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