From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12696 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Felix Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: q0.12: agent comments Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:55:17 -0700 Sender: flee@cygnus.com Message-ID: <199710250754.AAA11211@smtp2.teleport.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152186 5180 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:16:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA24612 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 02:04:46 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA04517 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 04:06:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id JAA16455 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 09:54:18 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (qmail 18117 invoked by uid 504); 25 Oct 1997 07:54:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18114 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1997 07:54:17 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp2.teleport.com (192.108.254.20) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 1997 07:54:17 -0000 Original-Received: from cygnus.com (ip-pdx02-14.teleport.com [206.163.123.47]) by smtp2.teleport.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA11211 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-reply-to: Your message of 25 Oct 1997 00:23:38 +0200. Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12696 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12696 > > and semi-intelligent expire. (eg, for ! marks, instead of > > putting the article into the cache, mark it as not to be > Why not just use `*' to make the article persistent instead? I do that sometimes, but *ed articles tend to go away once they're marked as read, right? which is perfectly acceptable behavior. (and simpler than trying to type M-* to uncache articles.) unrelated musing.. lately I've been reading work-related news by gnus'ing remotely on an rlogin over 28k ppp. despite the sluggish display and the mediocre interactive response, this is surprisingly much more _usable_ than gnus'ing locally with nntp over 28k ppp. mostly because I don't have these random delays waiting for data to arrive. there's something wrong here. maybe I'll stop running gnus locally. (except then I'll need some other way of saving the collected genius of Archimedes Plutonium, not to mention all those Xxxciting! Hot! Babes! that want to meet me personally.) or maybe I need a different backend that talks to an intermediate reader agent that reduces the data transfer substantially.. (compression is probably a good first try; news data (like overview) tends to compress very well.) --