From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78071 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent and large counts and general offline usage Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:52:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87bp11gdko.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300953223 24389 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2011 07:53:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:53:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26382@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Mar 24 08:53:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2fMP-0003NV-7u for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:53:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2fLn-00031k-98; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:52:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2fLl-00031V-RG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2fLl-000155-76 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2fLk-0006Ot-GM for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:52:56 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2fLk-00030h-66 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:52:56 +0100 Original-Received: from ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net ([78.233.218.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:52:56 +0100 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:52:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78071 Archived-At: 24/03/11 01:25, Richard Riley > (sorry if this is a re-mail - a combo of agent and blocked smtp server > port combined with exim4 inscrutability causing havoc here..) > > Just using the agent for the first time abroad in an attempt to cut > online charges that result from the usb mobile network "roaming" cash > cow. > > Plugged, adding a few nntp groups to the agent "default" category and > then fetching data using Js, I then go unplugged. So far so good. I can > read the fetched articles. > > If I quit Gnus then restart unplugged the article counts are massive e.g > 2390233 for one group that I had already caught up with. > > If I go "plugged" then the count stays at that high number. > > Is there a remedy? I had the same issue a few weeks ago, it stopped with one of the updates. I believe it was gnus-sum.el (gnus-propagate-marks): Change default back to nil again, since most backends do not usefully have server-side marks.