Re: online vs offline available articles conflict resolution

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

Neil Crellin <neilc@cadabra.com> writes:

> Online beating offline: If I haven't done a "J s" recently enough and
> accidentally enter a group for which I've seen article numbers online
> I've not read, gnus treats them as if already expired I guess, and I
> have a devil of a time finding which articles I hadn't already read
> next time I'm online.

Yes, that's a pain.

> Is there some way of making this less painful?  Perhaps if visiting
> groups while offline there were some metadatum kept regarding the last
> known to be downloaded article the Agent grabbed, and not killing
> anything in a range past that?  What about the other way?  When there
> are unread articles available in the Agent but not on the server, it
> seems a crime to mark those as expired and unavailable.

The problem with the Agent is that is Almost Works.  I mean, I use it
constantly, and with my usage pattern, and if I'm careful, I see no
glitches.

Fixing it up completely is something, I think, that will require a
redesign. 

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen