From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26652 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: online vs offline available articles conflict resolution Date: 25 Sep 1999 09:57:04 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163821 20555 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:30:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19151 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:47:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB05699; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:47:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:47:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06038 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:46:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (quimbies.gnus.org [193.69.4.148]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19101 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:46:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA30860; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 10:14:41 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Moby's _Play_: "Everloving" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Neil Crellin's message of "01 Sep 1999 14:54:21 -0700" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen