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Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu> writes:

> I've noticed that the agent in Oort gnus does not fetch all of the
> articles that I expect it to, and it seems to be that the articles that
> it doesn't fetch have been read before I try to fetch them.
>
> The newsgroups in question are in a category whose predicate is "true".
> I am not explicitly marking articles for downloading. I'm just doing a
> "J s" in the *Group* buffer.
>
> Is the agent supposed to fetch articles that have already been read? Is
> not, there some way to get it to do so?

No, the behaviour is hard coded.  I think I posted a patch here a
while ago that introduced a new agent predicate `read'.  I'm not sure
if it still applies (or works) correctly, maybe you could try.