Re: Offline body retrieval

[Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

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

  Nothing - despite the fact that leafnode might download several
articles for the same newsgroup.

  OK - how's it all supposed to work? I start gnus 'unplugged', start
my ppp link and then go 'J j' (gnus-plugged). 'J s' or 'J u' results
in all too quick 'finished fetching new news' (or whatever). 'g'
doesn't update the unread article numbers in the group buffer, but '3
g' does. *Then* 'J s' or 'J u' will download new articles and I can
then go 'J j', select the requisite group and read new articles.

  Now here's another frustrating thing - when I then 'q' out of the
summary buffer and then 'q' out of gnus altogether, the new articles
mysteriously vanish when I start gnus up again. I've also managed to
achieve the same undesirable result by merely 'q'ing from the summary
buffer and then performing 'g' - ...poof, the unread article count
goes down for said group, taking the new articles with it!!?

  I'm really not having much fun here as I decided to leap from the
shores of 5.4.67 & leafnode and become fully 'agentized' with Quassia
0.17. I may require a little hand-holding here. What precisely should
I be doing in a normal Quassia gnus session to obtain and retain new
news articles? Is it (or can it be) 'gnus-unplugged' -> ppp link up ->
'J j' -> 'J s' or 'J u' and watch it all flood in, or do I have to do
a 'g' or 'numeric-prefix  g' first and then proceed?

  The initial population of my newsgroups with articles was fine its
just getting the new stuff to go in there with them.
  
  TIA for some details here, or should I clamber back on the shores of
5.4.67 and await the full ocean-going Quassia ;-).
  
-- 
Mike.