From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25291 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Epprecht Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: agent-score . file Date: 25 Sep 1999 07:34:35 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162703 13206 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:11:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:11:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA08821 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:55:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAB17510; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 00:55:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 25 Sep 1999 00:55:52 -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 AAA13258 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 00:55:40 -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 BAA08801 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from pc.home [212.90.193.54] by mail.sunweb.ch with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.03) id A1837A060094; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 05:53:55 +03d00 Original-Received: (from epprecht@localhost) by pc.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA00477; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 07:34:35 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25291 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25291 Hi I would like to share some experiences I had trying to let the Agent use normal scoring rules for his downloading. (see Node: Category Syntax) For people who like the 'offline' way of news reading it's fantastic. You see a new interesting thread starting or something and just do 'I r r t' or the like and the Agent takes care that you will find the messages downloaded. It's great! But then, not quite: Sometimes it suddenly stops working and I can't see why. Sometimes it happens just in one group, and sometimes in all of them. I have tried to track it down for several weeks now, to be able to report it here, but still do not understand what's happening. Is there anybody else using it? I have (agent-score . file) in the group parameters. I don't edit my score files by hand (normally), but only with the interface that gnus gives me ('I a s p' and the like). I don't think I do any scoring, that the Agent does not understand (and the manual says, it would be skipped anyway...). Or does the orphan rule give any problems? While it is working great half of the time, it stops to do so every now and then. The messages are still scored like they should be, but the Agent does not download them. I couldn't figure out any difference between groups where it is working and those, that stopped working. I need some advice what to try next. My ISP's news server is not very stable. Could be, that the problems I see originate there. But even then, I would like to see Gnus and the Agent recover better after problems like a news server breaking down during transmission and the like. BTW: Shouldn't the Agent also see the all.SCORE file? It does not seem to do so. Is it possible to put '(agent-score . file)' in the topics parameter? I was not able to do it this way. Robert Epprecht