From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41659 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bjørn Mork" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: large .overview files in agentized nntp groups Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 23:26:33 +0100 Organization: DoD Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87r8p9es7w.fsf@bang.priv.no> <871yh8emp7.fsf@bang.priv.no> <874rm1srjo.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87vgegrc7l.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177022 7372 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 12555 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 22:27:25 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 22:27:25 -0000 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 16MzHB-0008H2-00; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:26:53 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:26:47 -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 QAA16907 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 16:26:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12544 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2002 22:26:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12539 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 22:26:34 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 22:26:34 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16MzHs-00011v-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 23:27:36 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c4s142h4.upc.chello.no Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1010269656 3962 62.179.170.4 (5 Jan 2002 22:27:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jan 2002 22:27:36 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3OGL1yklgsChU6cs2EiK/oOdHN4= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41659 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41659 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Steinar Bang writes: > >> BTW what's supposed to happen if you have some old articles ticked in >> a group, and then agentize it, and then download articles? >> >> Is agent supposed to download all the intervening articles between the >> ticked ones and the current ones? > > No, it's only supposed to download the ticked and unread articles. It's a long time since this worked for me. Agent now downloads all articles newer than the latest article in its database, independent of the marks. This means that if I ever run gnus-agent-expire and this causes a low traffic group to be completely purged, then agent will download the entire group next time I do a fetch even if all articles are marked read. Quite annoying :-( I read news and mail online most of the time, but (used to) use agent for short offline periods like the bus ride to work. The current behaviour makes this usage pattern very inefficient since most articles are downloaded two times... I tried to send a bug report a few months ago, but don't think anybody noticed. I'm still not completely sure that this problem isn't caused by a configuration error on my end since noone else have reported it. In that case I would appreciate a hint or two. AFAIK I haven't changed anything related to agent since things worked, just done a cvs update now and then. Bjørn -- How can you say that Nixon is a selfish beast?