Re: OffGnus

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> writes:

> LMI> No -- nnagent will always download all the headers.  It's only the
> LMI> article bodies that are interesting to decide whether should be
> LMI> fetched or not.
> 
> You misunderstand.  If I score an article low based on how many lines it
> contains, it will not appear in the summary buffer where I want it to
> appear: where it would appear had I not scored it based on lines.  I
> want that summary line to be there.  I just do not want to have that
> article automatically downloaded; I want the option of seeing it right
> there and being able to tag it for download at read time.

I must be misunderstanding something basic here, because you and I
seem to be saying the same things here.  Only we're disagreeing.  :-)

So, here's what I see happening:

When downloading groups, nnagent:

1) Always downloads all headers, and
2) Uses a scoring scheme to say what articles to download, and
   also downloads articles that have been manually marked for
   download, no matter what their scores are.

The scoring scheme can be any normal Gnus scoring scheme -- "From",
"Lines", "Subject", whatever.  All headers to all articles (downloaded
or not) will of course appear in the summary buffer.  Unless you want
them to.

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen