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Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>:
>
>> I have installed the following.  I did test it slightly, but please
>> verify if it works.
>
>> 2003-12-29  Simon Josefsson  <jas@extundo.com>
>
>> 	* gnus-agent.el (gnus-agentize): Improve auto-agentizing logic.
>> 	Suggested by Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>.
>
> I have patched the .el file, run make in the lisp directory and
> started a new xemacs.
>
> If I do J r on the agentized servers in the *Server* buffer, quit
> gnus, do
> 	rm -rf ~/News/agent
> and restart gnus, I still find the servers agentized after startup. 

Uhm, but what would you expect to happen?  The knowledge about which
servers are agentized and which are not is stored in
~/News/agent/lib/servers, so if you remove that file, Gnus will
auto-agentize your servers.

The point of the patch is that auto-agentification only happens once
(unless you modify ~/News/agent/ manually).  I think if a user remove
~/News/agent she wishes to start afresh, and auto-agentification is
useful in that case.

What do you think?  Can you suggest/describe a better logic that does
what you want?