Re: Excessive nntp reads since today

[Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>]

On Tue, Jun 12 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote:

>   - The old and buggy 'some semantics of `gnus-fetch-old-headers' were
>     exactly what I want.  I.e., I want Gnus to *fetch* only new
>     messages, but it should also *display* summary lines of old messages
>     to fill loose threads in case those can be determined from the
>     overview.

IIUC, the summary would consist of new headers and some subset of the
headers cached by the agent.  I think this is a problem because the
agent cache seems to be designed to be transparently used, so that you
have always the illusion of talking directly to the server.  When the
agent is plugged, that is.  However, when the agent is unplugged, the
agent is your server, in some sense.  So I think you can have what you
want in the following clean way:

Get new articles, fetch them with the agent, unplug, enter a group.

g J s J j . RET

For this to work, it seems necessary to set gnus-fetch-old-headers to
t instead of some (but I might have wrong expectations or misunderstand
something here, and, obviously, I haven't tested this very extensively).

Wolfgang