From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48413 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The Agent now downloading gigs of old articles... Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:47:25 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041304559 21374 80.91.224.249 (31 Dec 2002 03:15:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 03:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18TCsn-0005Yc-00 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 04:15:57 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18TCtE-0002E0-00; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:16:24 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:17:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA15499 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:17:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 64608 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2002 03:16:07 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 64603 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2002 03:16:07 -0000 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (80.91.231.2) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 31 Dec 2002 03:16:07 -0000 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18TCsx-000350-00 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 04:16:07 +0100 X-From-Line: nobody Sat Dec 28 18:47:25 2002 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Various's _New Women's Music Sampler_: "Kaia - Insomnia" Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: |J As for uncached, well I'd been reading too many old articles > suggesting that the cache and agent should be merged. That may be the case, but probably not. The cache is for storing stuff you want forever. The Agent is an offline news reader with expiry and stuff. They happen to be implemented pretty similarly, but the functionality is pretty different. > Personally, I also prefer uncached as a word than undownloaded or > unfetched. Well, it's quite confusing to call variables according to what they aren't. > If anyone wants to try an alternative color scheme, here's one: I've applied that one. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen