From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: q0.12: agent comments
Date: 25 Oct 1997 00:23:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lnzikdg5.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Felix Lee's message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 13:17:17 -0700"
Felix Lee <flee@teleport.com> writes:
> > > how do I tell agent I only want ten groups fetched every
> > > time I "J s"? my newsrc has a couple hundred groups that
> > > I'm vaguely interested in but don't read often.
> > Fiddle with the categories.
>
> as far as I can tell, fiddling with categories only affects
> article fetching, not overview-fetching, right?
Yup.
> I really don't need to spend an hour waiting for overview data from
> 300 groups I rarely read.
Then just unsubscribe the groups you don't read very often.
> I should have said instead.. any chance the agent will gain
> most of the functionality of the cache? I mean like, right
> now I have agent, asynch, backlog, and cache enabled, as
> parts of an ad-hoc plan to minimize waiting for slow ppp
> traffic. and so I can end up with 2 or more copies of the
> same article stored in various disk and memory locations.
If you switch all four on, you'll usually have five copies of each
article stored somewhere. :-) (Three of them inside Emacs, but
still...)
> really, all I need is agent, once it gets async data fetch
> and semi-intelligent expire. (eg, for ! marks, instead of
> putting the article into the cache, mark it as not to be
> expired.)
Why not just use `*' to make the article persistent instead?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-24 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-10 5:30 Felix Lee
1997-10-12 22:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-10-13 20:17 ` Felix Lee
1997-10-24 22:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-10-25 7:55 ` Felix Lee
1997-10-27 6:54 ` Andy Eskilsson
1997-10-28 8:21 ` gnus over compressed nntp Felix Lee
1997-10-29 20:07 ` Samuel Tardieu
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