From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23769 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Epprecht Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Song of Programming Date: 04 Jul 1999 15:20:13 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161443 3819 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:50:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA21329 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:23:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB25208; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 08:23:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 04 Jul 1999 08:22:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA22554 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 08:22:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.sunweb.ch ([195.141.237.254]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA21278 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:21:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from pc.sunweb.ch [195.141.237.60] by mail.sunweb.ch with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.03) id AF6A3420246; Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:19:38 +03d00 Original-Received: (from epprecht@localhost) by pc.sunweb.ch (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00534; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:20:13 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "04 Jul 1999 08:07:38 +0200" Original-Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23769 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23769 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > The fact that gnus-agent looses track of agentized posts once they are > > expunged from the server is a singularly annoying aspect of gnus, for > > us offliners. > > Yup. Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.91. Wow! Thank you Lars, that's a bit like christmas for me... So now there's only one thing left, to make the agent a *very* handy offline tool: a better interface to the download score rules. It would be very convenient if you could say 'I like this thread, author or whatever, please download all the articles' Having to edit a score file by hand or marking each single posting is a bit too complicated. On the other hand we have this very good interface to the other score files. So why not use the normal scoring rules for downloading? This very likely wouldn't be too much work to implement. Or have gnus-agent-use-normal-scoring-for-download or something like that to swich it on or off? Of course it wouldn't make sense to score on the body, so maybe the agent should ignore this or warn, if someone tries to do so? Another solution would be to do something like having the scoring interface understand the 'symbolic prefix', and let there be values like 'a' for all-score-rules or 'd' for download-score-rules. So you could say something like 'M-i d I a s p' or so to change the agents download score rules. Anyway, a handy interface to the download score rules would be a very substantial improvement of the agents abilities. Robert Epprecht