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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: automatic Agentizing of servers (was: Summary buffer
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:19:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ad5b59oa.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluekunrxj7.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> But it doesn't rule out the possibility that I'm wrong. :-)
>
> The auto-agentification is rather simplistic, basically I believe it
> now just work like:
>
> IF NOT EXISTS ~/News/agent/lib/servers THEN
>   DOLIST (cons gnus-select-method gnus-secondary-select-methods)
>     method = (gnus-method-to-server LISTEL)
>     IF CAR(method) MEMBER OF gnus-agent-auto-agentize-methods
>        ADD method TO gnus-agent-covered-methods
>   WRITE gnus-agent-covered-methods INTO ~/News/agent/lib/servers

Maybe its been explained before but I'm having trouble understanding
why we need any auto agentization.  Seems like it should always
require a `J a' on the server.  What is really saved or made better
by having it automatic?




  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-30  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-24 15:14 Summary buffer highlighting Emerick Rogul
2003-11-24 16:17 ` automatic Agentizing of servers (was: Summary buffer highlighting) Ted Zlatanov
2003-11-24 16:42   ` automatic Agentizing of servers (was: Summary buffer Emerick Rogul
2003-11-24 16:47   ` Kevin Greiner
2003-11-24 17:05     ` Emerick Rogul
2003-11-24 17:07     ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-11-25  2:48       ` Kevin Greiner
2003-11-25  8:25         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-11-25 18:31           ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-29 21:22           ` Steinar Bang
2003-12-29 21:39             ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-29 21:58               ` Steinar Bang
2003-12-29 22:23                 ` Steinar Bang
2003-12-29 22:27                   ` Steinar Bang
2003-12-29 22:36                     ` Steinar Bang
2003-12-29 22:33                 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-29 22:44                   ` Steinar Bang
2003-12-29 23:00                     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-29 23:10                       ` Kevin Greiner
2003-12-29 23:17                         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-29 23:37                           ` Kevin Greiner
2003-12-29 23:53                             ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-30  2:19                               ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2003-12-30  9:44                                 ` Steinar Bang
2003-12-30 11:16                                 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-30 20:55                                   ` Steinar Bang
2003-12-30 21:30                                     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-30 22:49                                       ` Harry Putnam
2003-12-31 12:55                                       ` Steinar Bang
2003-12-30  9:40                       ` Steinar Bang

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