Re: Downloading articles into the agent

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> writes:

> I'm not entirely sure that I see the need for a distinction.  I used
> Forte Agent for over a year before switching to Gnus (and still use it
> for some purposes), and my strategy was always to connect and grab
> headers, disconnect and mark them, then reconnect to get the bodies.

If you don't want the Gnus agent to fetch any articles automatically,
that's no problem.  I don't quite see why you'd want that, though.

I've now done the first "real" Gnus agent runs.  I've set most groups
to download all small (less than 100 lines) articles automatically,
while in some select groups I exclude all crossposted articles, and in
other groups I just download articles from a certain person
(news.admin.net-abuse.* and Chris Lewis).  (These finer distinctions
are done by the agent scoring mechanism.)

After finishing the downloading, I hang up and start reading.  I found
a couple of articles that I wanted to read that wasn't downloaded, so
I marked them as downloadable, and they'll be fetched the next time
the agent fetches articles.  

> What I'd hope to see in an agent mode for Gnus would be normal scoring
> on at least the NOV information and pre-marking everything scoring
> higher than N in a newgroup, then showing the summary buffer so that I
> could make adjustments in what actually gets downloaded.

I don't follow you.  Pre-mark?  In what way?  

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