Re: Possible small bug in agent

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> gnus-agent-handle-level is only used in gnus-agent-fetch-session(J
> s). It doesn't prohibit a user to fetch articles of groups above the
> level(J u), so the groups are still under agent management.
> 
> The number of unread is changed because the .overview file in nnagent
> is not updated.  It happens when you enter a group (even below
> g-a-h-level) without having fetched the headers, e.g. `J j g J j'.

Thanks... at least now I understand the mechanism involved.  Maybe it
wouldn't be so hard to write somekind of hook called by `g' that
notices if gnus is in agent mode and notices if g-a-h-level is in force.

And says something like.... "Wait! You are `unplugged'. Don't open
this group unless you don't mind loosing all track of readedness.
Be warned, the mighty `AGENT' manages all groups under HIS servers"

> 
> Possibly, it is not a bug because "The Gnus Agent doesn't seem to work
> like most other offline newsreaders."

He he... Possibly it is a well thought out feature, the work of a
savant, because "The Gnus Agent doesn't seem to work like *ANY* other
offline reader."