Re: Do not want agantized, nnml backend.

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>
>>> ** gnus-agent
>>>
>>> The Gnus Agent is now enabled by default.  This means that, e.g.,
>>> headers are not downloaded from agentized servers by default (agentize
>>               ^^^ now?
>>> servers by using `J a' in the server buffer).
>
> I'm a little confused here..  Which is correct?  The first (Simons')
> messages went on and said a special var would have to be set before  
> downloading would happen, even if a server was `agentized'.
>
> So is the regular nntp server now *NOT* agentized by default.  And
> once agentized, one must set the special var as well?...
>  confused..

Is the new text less confusing?  (See last post.)

The intention is that you shouldn't do anything to have your nntp and
nnimap groups agentized.

Right now though, servers in g-s-m or g-s-s-m are not agentized.
(E.g., manually added ones in the server buffer.)  Maybe they should?

> Didn't  agentized servers always download headers by default, so
> saying `now' seems wrong. 

When you were plugged, Gnus used headers from the remote server, not
the local agent cache, IIRC.  Now, Gnus uses headers from the local
cache all the time.