Re: Offline body retrieval

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

Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:

>   I've also been unable to fathom out how to just obtain say the last
> few hundred headers of newly subscribed groups, and not all 5000+ :-(.

Have the default agent category score down all old(er) articles.

>   Fetching new news articles also has me stumped (and I think you're
> beginning to understand why I'm still on 5.4.67 & leafnode :-)). I've
> conducted comparisons between what leafnode downloads (via 5.4.67) and
> what the agent downloads when I do a 'J u' or 'J s'. With very little
> rhyme or reason (to me at least), the agent does not appear to fetch
> as many new article headers/bodies, in-fact it usually downloads
> nothing - I fruitlessly try a few more 'J u's and 'J s's, eventually
> give up and retreat to the comfortable confines of 5.4.67 and await
> the next Quassia release.

`J u' downloads nothing?  What does it do, then?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen