Re: What is happening in agentized groups?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:


> The Agent has a hard coded behaviour not to download read articles.
> There was a patch that added a new predicate `read' and changed the
> default predicate from short into (and (not read) short) but I
> couldn't find a way to make it backwards compatible so I hesitated
> about commiting it.  But I'm not sure if readedness is causing your
> problem though.
>
How can I find out?  I suspect that for some time agent isn't keeping
what it downloads.  I haven't really checked and can't think of a way
to find out immediately either.  I guess I will record the number of
messages in all agentized groups today  and then check them in a week
or so.

My Categories buffer looks like:
 default: 0

The predicate is `true'

About that readedness thing; shouldn't the agent just download
according to predicate and score, not mindfull of readedness.
One might read a message in plugged mode but still want it
downloaded.   In fact, I would think that would be pretty much the
norm.  I'd prefer the agent not pay attention to what I do when plugged.

At the very least, a predicate of `true' should download everthing,
regardless. I would think.