From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12686 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: q0.12: agent comments Date: 25 Oct 1997 00:23:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <199710132016.NAA03553@smtp1.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152178 5141 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:16:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:16:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA10901 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:22:26 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA19887 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:24:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id BAA27187 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 01:04:19 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (qmail 16442 invoked by uid 504); 24 Oct 1997 23:04:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16438 invoked from network); 24 Oct 1997 23:04:04 -0000 Original-Received: from xyplex26.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.154.46) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 1997 23:04:03 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01085; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:56:24 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Felix Lee's message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 13:17:17 -0700" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.13/XEmacs 19.15 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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