From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50212 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: nnimap usage model Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:33:59 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <84vfzeg8l4.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84wuk1togu.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84bs1c1be3.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045769998 21786 80.91.224.249 (20 Feb 2003 19:39:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:39:58 +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 18lwXz-0005eu-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:39:56 +0100 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 18lwV5-0003mL-00; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:36:55 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:37:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA23961 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:37:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 14652 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2003 19:36:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14646 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2003 19:36:31 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 20 Feb 2003 19:36:31 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18lwiF-0003o8-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:50:31 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f8d1.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1045770631 14637 217.81.248.209 (20 Feb 2003 19:50:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Feb 2003 19:50:31 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:d0cFeXXKhlBcODZUEHOH+cYNIlw= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50212 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50212 David Abrahams 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. -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.