Re: Downloading articles into the agent

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

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

> > 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.
> 
> Timing.  This is actually more of a concern in Gnus than it was in
> Agent, since Emacs doesn't multitask.

Well, for things like this it can multitask.  I haven't implemented it
yet, but it's pretty straightforward to do.

> I don't especially want to wait an hour or so while bodies download
> before I can read my mail or start reviewing the articles that
> weren't downloaded automatically.

I've only used the Gnus agent a couple of days, and it uses less
connection time than suck, since it doesn't download articles that I
know I don't want to read (especially long articles).  I've yet to
tell it to download something it decided not to download.  Scoring is
nice. 

> > > 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?  
> 
> Mark them as downloadable when the summary buffer is generated,
> instead of downloading them the first time around.  This is mainly a
> matter of convenience.

Uhm...  Why would you want to mark the articles as downloadable at
that point?  Why not just download them?

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