Re: What is happening in agentized groups?

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I have a default predicate of true and no other categories.
> Its been that way for a month or longer.  
>
> Opening gnu.emacs.gnus with C-u prompts for how many, and suggests a
> total of 3256.  When the group actually opens I see 2200 of those are
> actually those things marked:
>
>    1@  31-Dec [   0: Gnus Agent  ] [Undownloaded article 69363]
>
> Where the number is different for each.  What is the point of this?

It is because the NOV of the article doesn't appear in the .overview
file.

> Can there really be over 2000 messages on gnu.emacs.help that a
> predicate of true has not downloaded?

It is not related to predicates.

> Far as I know, one doesn't have to explicitly put groups in the
> default category, and if the server is mentioned in
> News/agent/lib/servers, then it should be downloading them all.
> Even if the server is not mentioned and it is the nntp server
> mentioned in .gnus, it should have any group in default predicate and
> be downloading all messages..
>
> I see thousands of these Undownloaded article summary entries in
> several groups.

ShengHuo