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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> Lars> Gnus will basically work as Free Agent works -- only with a wider
> Lars> range of methods (using artificial stupidity) for deciding what
> Lars> articles to download automatically.
> 
> Maybe... but I still think that the concept of a "marked as downloadable"
> tick-like mark is the best way to accomodate everyone since such a mark may
> be set both automatically and manually.  If you go through my last
> description of they way I think it should work you will see that both ways
> of reading and downloading are available simultaneousy, without any
> significant degree of changes to the way Gnus functions.  Everybody wins.

Well, we do have a downloadable mark.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen