Re: [Q]: How good is gmane for you ?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am subscribed to tons of mailing lists and fetching all my mails is
> getting longer and longer now (result in something to about 45minutes
> every day). So I am looking at alternatives to the traditional mailing
> lists and gmane seems to be the only one solution.

I've dropped most of my mailing list subscriptions in favor of gmane.
My mail spool look rather empty when I access it through SquirrelMail,
but I suppose that is a feature.

> Alright. Now here comes my question: I am planning to agentize all
> gmane groups I am used to read trough mailing lists. My main fear is
> using agent to fetch my nrws (yeah this is news now ;)) I can miss some
> post or they are not downloaded when I need them (most of time in the
> train).

I'm agentizing the gmane.org server (actually it was agentized by
default for me), and I'm using the following agent configuration:

 '(gnus-agent-consider-all-articles t)
 '(gnus-agent-enable-expiration (quote DISABLE))
 '(gnus-select-article-hook (quote (gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article ...

I think the first and the last are the most relevant ones.  I have all
messages, in the groups I'm interested in, on local disk.  I don't
have to do anything to make articles appear in the agent, but
sometimes I do `J s' for the fun of it.

If you don't want to risk losing all of your agent cache by invoking
the agent expiring process, you want the second line too -- IIRC, the
default is to expire stuff older than 7 days.  (I do think agent
expiring should be off by default, though.)

Also, you want to use scoring to remove spam from the gmane.org
groups.  Type `W e' in the *Group* buffer and add:

(("xref"
  ("gmane.spam.detected" -1000 nil s))
; ("xref"
;  ("gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.sightings" -1000 nil s))
 (mark-and-expunge -100))

Unfortunately, the spamassassin installation at gmane.org seem to miss
a lot of spam, but I suppose I could use spam.el locally.