From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: bugs@gnus.org
Cc: 8502@debbugs.gnu.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#8502: Make the agent eagerly cache articles
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 00:10:21 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvliypg5p8.fsf-monnier+INBOX@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k4eacnpl.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 01 May 2011 19:52:54 +0200")
>> IIUC gnus-agent-cache only causes headers to be cached. Not caching
>> full articles made a lot of sense a few years ago, but with current disk
>> sizes, most/many MUAs happily keep a full local copy of the remote IMAP
>> folders and Gnus should be able to do the same.
> Downloading articles isn't so much about disk space as network
> capacity. But I agree with you that the Agent should probably download
> the articles by default.
I'm talking about caching. I.e. keeping local copies after we've
downloaded them, so it shouldn't increase network traffic, only disk use.
> Does anybody mind me switching `gnus-agent-predicate' to `true' by
> default?
Maybe that would be good, yes. A better docstring would also be
welcome: I don't understand the current one.
Stefan
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[not found] <jwvtye0id2w.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca>
2011-05-01 17:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 3:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-05-02 3:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 14:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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