Re: nnimap usage model

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Well, err.  As I understand it, frobbing gnus-agent-cache influences
>
> Sorry: frobbing?

It's hacker jargon.  It means something like toggle: to frob a light
switch.  For details, see the jargon file (can be found via Google).

>> the behavior for the plugged case only.  So you could set
>> gnus-agent-cache to nil, then you could use `J s' to fetch articles
>> and headers.  But as long as you're online, Gnus won't use those
>> local copies when you enter a group and so on.  Instead, the headers
>> will be fetched again.  
>
> Seems rather pointless, doesn't it?

You'd be surprised.  Some people have uses for things that mere
mortals (like me) can't imagine.  Maybe somebody is running Emacs with
an NFS mounted home dir on a slow link where the server is on a faster
link.  Whatever...

But it's also the case that I fundamentally don't understand what Gnus
is doing -- see the discussion between Kevin and me regarding this.
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