From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: q0.12: agent comments
Date: 13 Oct 1997 00:08:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2afge8wir.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Felix Lee's message of "Thu, 09 Oct 1997 22:30:34 -0700"
Felix Lee <flee@teleport.com> writes:
> any chance the agent will become unified with the cache? I
> find it kinda odd to have both.
They are orthogonal.
> for foreign servers, agent wasn't storing an active file
> until I put them in gnus-secondary-select-methods. is this
> normal? is this ok?
It's normal, but I don't know whether it's ok or not.
> how do I tell agent I only want ten groups fetched every
> time I "J s"? my newsrc has a couple hundred groups that
> I'm vaguely interested in but don't read often.
Fiddle with the categories.
> it's kinda annoying that agent doesn't store articles in a
> group until after it fetches them all. if it ever gets
> interrupted in middle of fetching, it has to start all over.
Yup. I've now put this on the todo list.
> making it async would be good. but in the meantime,
> howabout a batch-mode fetch?
I've now added a `gnus-agent-batch-fetch' command.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-12 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-10 5:30 Felix Lee
1997-10-12 22:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-10-13 20:17 ` Felix Lee
1997-10-24 22:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-10-25 7:55 ` Felix Lee
1997-10-27 6:54 ` Andy Eskilsson
1997-10-28 8:21 ` gnus over compressed nntp Felix Lee
1997-10-29 20:07 ` Samuel Tardieu
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