From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79951 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nuke offline mode? Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:02:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wrd9rp78.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316185444 1528 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2011 15:04:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:04:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28245@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Sep 16 17:03:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R4ZxO-0000GQ-N9 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:03:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R4ZxJ-0002XX-21; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R4ZxH-0002XM-Ek for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:03:51 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R4ZxF-0008K8-Jk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:03:51 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R4ZxC-0005mL-Mg for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:03:46 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R4ZxC-0000BP-BO for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:03:46 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:03:46 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:03:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1LzIkJoYPB7gYjdPERSbG6+jRxc= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79951 Archived-At: on Fri Sep 16 2011, Miles Bader wrote: > 2011/9/16 Reiner Steib : >> On Fri, Sep 16 2011, Miles Bader wrote: > >>> Is there a simple setting I can use to completely and utterly disable >>> offline mode, >> >> Just set `gnus-agent' to nil.  Maybe the docs should explain ths more >> prominently? > > Hmm, doesn't the "gnus agent" have other useful functions? I vaguely > recall something about it like that... that it was for more than > offline stuff.... maybe I'm just misremembering tho... See the bottom paragraph below. Pretty cryptic, but it does imply that you shouldn't disable the agent that way unless you like waiting. ,----[ C-h v gnus-agent RET ] | gnus-agent is a variable defined in `gnus.el'. | Its value is t | | Documentation: | Whether we want to use the Gnus agent or not. | | You may customize gnus-agent to disable its use. However, some | back ends have started to use the agent as a client-side cache. | Disabling the agent may result in noticeable loss of performance. `---- -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com