From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43640
Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail
From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: What is happening in agentized groups?
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:11:36 +0100
Message-ID: <a5ed44$vtp$1@quimby2.netfonds.no>
References: <m1g03ps8vt.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>
	<2nsn7pnzy6.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu>
	<m17kp1rzqp.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014675396 32697 195.204.10.66 (25 Feb 2002 22:16:36 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no
NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Feb 2002 22:16:36 GMT
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13])
	by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
	id 16fTQB-0008VB-00; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:16:35 +0100
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 16fTLo-0005bN-00; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:12:04 -0600
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:12:04 -0600 (CST)
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 QAA16524
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:11:53 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: (qmail 931 invoked by alias); 25 Feb 2002 22:11:43 -0000
Original-Received: (qmail 926 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2002 22:11:43 -0000
Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178)
  by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 Feb 2002 22:11:43 -0000
Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178])
	(authenticated bits=0)
	by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1PMBdKY012286;
	Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:11:39 +0100
Original-To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
In-Reply-To: <m17kp1rzqp.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of
 "Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:57:34 -0800")
Mail-Copies-To: nobody
Original-Lines: 16
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50
 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43640
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43640

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

>>> Can there really be over 2000 messages on gnu.emacs.help that a
>>> predicate of true has not downloaded?
>>
>> It is not related to predicates.
>
> It is, in this way:  A predicate of true should leave *NO*
> undownloaded messages, not to mention 2200 of them in a short while.

The Agent has a hard coded behaviour not to download read articles.
There was a patch that added a new predicate `read' and changed the
default predicate from short into (and (not read) short) but I
couldn't find a way to make it backwards compatible so I hesitated
about commiting it.  But I'm not sure if readedness is causing your
problem though.