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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: bugs@gnus.org, 8502@debbugs.gnu.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: bug#8502: Make the agent eagerly cache articles
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 19:52:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k4eacnpl.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtye0id2w.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca>

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> IIUC gnus-agent-cache only causes headers to be cached.  Not caching
> full articles made a lot of sense a few years ago, but with current disk
> sizes, most/many MUAs happily keep a full local copy of the remote IMAP
> folders and Gnus should be able to do the same.

Downloading articles isn't so much about disk space as network
capacity.  But I agree with you that the Agent should probably download
the articles by default.

Does anybody mind me switching `gnus-agent-predicate' to `true' by
default?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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       reply	other threads:[~2011-05-01 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <jwvtye0id2w.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca>
2011-05-01 17:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-05-02  3:10   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-02  3:24     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-02 14:22       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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