From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12465 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norman Walsh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Agents? Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:19:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3270-Thu02Oct1997131921-0400-norm@berkshire.net> Reply-To: norm@berkshire.net NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI MIME-Edit 0.88 "Tsurugi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151996 3923 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:13:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:13:16 +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 LAA04290 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:38:46 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA10320 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:31:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 19:19:31 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 25229 invoked by uid 504); 2 Oct 1997 17:19:30 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25226 invoked from network); 2 Oct 1997 17:19:29 -0000 Original-Received: from loomis.berkshire.net (root@206.72.196.14) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 1997 17:19:29 -0000 Original-Received: from mergalang.berkshire.net (norm2.berkshire.net [206.72.196.74]) by loomis.berkshire.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) with SMTP id NAA08555 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:21:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Emacs: 19.34 Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.65/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12465 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12465 You know, I've been watching the discussion of agents go by for weeks at least, and I'm just gonna up and 'fess my ignorance. What in tarnation is an agent? Is there some document somewhere that describes, in general terms, what they are and why I might want one? I gather that it's related to offline news reading, and since I've already admitted to idiocy, I'll keep right on going. Is there a document somewhere that describes how to set that up? (Maybe that's the same document.) I do offline mail reading with feedmail and that seems to work fine. For news reading, I got tired of waiting for NNTP refreshes (my net connection is only 28.8) so I just slurp the news up on my ISP, package it as mail, gzip it, and download it (I can't post that way, so if I need to post I create a foreign nntp group, post through that, and then discard it). Maybe there's a better way. Yours in puzzlement, --norm