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From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Agent downloads too many headers
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:36:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84wuo6ncdt.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lm4nd0hl.fsf@enberg.org> (Henrik Enberg's message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:51:18 +0200")

Henrik Enberg <henrik@enberg.org> writes:

> I'm not all that familiar with the news protocol, but if there's a way
> to ask the server for the expiry time of each group, then maybe
> gnus-agent-expire-days could have the special value 'server which tells
> the agent to expire stuff at the same time the server does.

This is a possibility.  However, this doesn't catch canceled articles
and such stuff.  My idea was to just ask the server which articles it
has.  The problem I saw was that fetching all headers takes a long
time.  Hm.  But maybe the active data can be used.

kai
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-25  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-22  6:20 Kai Großjohann
2002-10-23  6:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-23 13:55   ` Wes Hardaker
2002-10-23 14:30     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-23 14:31     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-23 19:14     ` Josh Huber
2002-10-23 15:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-23 20:33   ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-23 21:42     ` Henrik Enberg
2002-10-24  7:14       ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-24 20:51         ` Henrik Enberg
2002-10-25  8:36           ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2002-10-25  7:32     ` Danny Siu

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