From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47392 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-agent typo? Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:26:12 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84n0pbipvq.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84hefe3m48.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84of9l7f3h.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84of9l6u4j.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> <84u1jc9uvb.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035455278 27444 80.91.224.249 (24 Oct 2002 10:27:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:27:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org 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 184fDZ-00078W-00 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:27:57 +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 184fCR-0005JW-00; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 05:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 24 Oct 2002 05:27:31 -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 FAA26782 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 05:27:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 2203 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2002 10:26:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2198 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2002 10:26:20 -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; 24 Oct 2002 10:26:20 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9OAQGFu016193 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:26:17 +0200 Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 0:021024:kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de:656937e862960180 X-Hashcash: 0:021024:ding@gnus.org:5f1aeb68dfe7a840 In-Reply-To: <84u1jc9uvb.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de's message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:08:40 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47392 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47392 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > >> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) wrote: >>> The original code is supposed to add ticked and dormant messages, I >>> think. And messages with other marks. Except for the unseen and the >>> recent mark. >> >> So it's supposed to add articles that have the ticked/dormant/whatever >> mark, regardless of whether they are seen/unseen/recent/non-recent, >> but it should not add or remove article solely on the basis of being >> seen/unseen/recent/non-recent. Is that right? > > That's my understanding. For ticked and dormant messages, it is > clear that it is useful to download them. > > (mapcar 'car (gnus-info-marks (gnus-get-info gnus-newsgroup-name))) > => (seen cache score expire reply tick) > > It is, however, somewhat unclear why it would be useful to fetch > cached or scored messages. I think the reason to download all marked articles was that the Agent would remove flags on non-existing articles otherwise. I guess if we make Agent not remove flags for non-existing articles, we can remove the workaround to download all marked articles.