From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46898 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Newbie: how to start using the Agent? Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 21:50:20 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <871y7ax7k3.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <873crrgreo.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <87k7l2mc35.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033502425 26818 127.0.0.1 (1 Oct 2002 20:00:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:00:25 +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 17wTBv-0006yN-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:00:23 +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 17wTB1-0001d4-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 14:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:00:07 -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 OAA28135 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:59:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 10302 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2002 19:59:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10297 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2002 19:59:09 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Oct 2002 19:59:09 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17wTuh-0000nK-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:46:39 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50877a2f.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1033505199 2456 80.135.122.47 (1 Oct 2002 20:46:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Oct 2002 20:46:39 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pHmCiYXOKldVM3n8GgQJ5yDmrKE= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46898 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46898 Wes Hardaker writes: > A friend of mine solves all this, by the way, but binding 'g' to both > fetching new mail and running the agent download process. He says he > has no problems like I have, as the agent will always get a copy > before you read it. Personally, I don't got offline "that much" and > hence don't want to always get stuff and would prefer to do it just > pre-trip or something... Yeah, I also think I want the Agent to cache everything I've read, and ideally, it should kind of keep fetching in the background for those old articles... But I could do a single-group scan while I'm out for lunch, one group per day. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)