Re: Excessive nntp reads since today

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> writes:

Hi Wolfgang,

>> The only difference to the current state of affairs would be that t
>> or 'some for `gnus-summary-show-old-articles' would only show already
>> fetched articles.
>
> Well, as I said, when plugged the agent cache is, IMHO, designed to be
> transparent with respect to the server.
>
> This implies that the summary should be the same as if the agent were
> non used at all.
>
> Only when the agent is unplugged it effectively is the server and you
> may expose its internal state in the summary.
>
> Of course, these points may be less important than I think them to
> be :-)

Yes, I think you have a bit too high expectations here.  I mean, the
real server is some reasonably well equipped machine, but Gnus possibly
runs on some small netbook with few RAM and disk space.  Thus there
shouldn't be a need to have subscribed groups to be complete (header)
mirrors of all available messages on the server.

For example, gmane.emacs.help currently has an 26MB .overview here, and
gmane.emacs.devel has nearly twice as many messages thus probably it
would have a 50MB overview.  And that's only for parts of the message
headers.

And finally, nobody has ever complained about the agent not fetching all
old message headers.

Bye,
Tassilo