From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47377 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent downloads too many headers Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:31:54 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <843cqxusyt.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84u1jfvvsx.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84vg3td5bf.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035383614 23903 80.91.224.249 (23 Oct 2002 14:33:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:33:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 184MZg-0006DA-00 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:33:33 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 184MYs-00088h-00; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:32:42 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:33:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA24232 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:33:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21607 invoked by alias); 23 Oct 2002 14:32:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21581 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2002 14:32:15 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 23 Oct 2002 14:32:15 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 184MYr-0000Qs-00 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:32:41 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: crybaby.uni-duisburg.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1035383561 1087 134.91.30.116 (23 Oct 2002 14:32:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Oct 2002 14:32:41 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AMODwbHjoMaOSwv1WOhhhD41gr8= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47377 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47377 Wes Hardaker writes: > Anyway, the other option to the above problems is to merely document > it in the variable documentation. IE, "if you change this value from > nil to t, you must also run gnus-forget-all-my-agent-knowledge or > something to remove the ranges you're worried about. It might be > easier than implementing the idea in the second paragraph above > (though that would certainly be easier for the end-user). This is easy to do, of course. So it remains to be seen whether the implementation is also easy :-) People can enter a group and hit `C-u J u' to fetch all those old articles. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)