Re: Overbearing undownloaded face

[Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net>]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> article, it's fetched into the agent.  So, for me, unread articles are
> either marked with the undownloaded or unread face depending on
> whether I've used a fetch command to fetch a block of articles.  All
> other articles are displayed in their traditional faces.

There is the nub.  You say `all other articles are displayed in their
traditional faces'  That is not what I see here.

If your fetching scheme allows this:  In one of your groups
that is under the agentized server but where you do not download all
messages.  Can you mark an undownloaded article as read (and see the
read, or ticked and see those faces).  Even read and article online,
is it marked as read?

I cannot.  

To me a natural thing to do with the agent is download groups I want
on disc for some reason, and not download others that I still may read
on line.  In those `online' groups I cannot see read or ticked face
only undownloaded.  

Wouldn't it make more sense to use summary-line-format to identify
undownloaded?  Then other faces would not be affected, but one would
still have a guide as to whether something was downloaded or not.