Re: Gnus losing information about what has been read

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

On 22 sep 2004, Jan Rychter wrote:

> > > > > > "Jonas" == Jonas Steverud <tvrud@bredband.net>
> > > > > > writes:
> Jonas> Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com> writes:
> > > Am I the only one who sees that?
> 
> [...]
> 
> Jonas> Besides, are your newsserver reliable? The one I used
> Jonas> before had a habit of reporting all articles new on a
> Jonas> weekly basis (it was a *very* badly admin:ed server run
> Jonas> by my ISP and it was a good thing they closed it down).
> Jonas> I used the caching feature to get around this problem
> Jonas> but I've never used the agent. Do you see the problem
> Jonas> with other newsreaders? Or if you don't use the agent
> Jonas> but reads online for a while?
> 
> This happens for me with three news servers, one of them being
> news.gmane.org. I think it only happens if I read news while
> unplugged.

Not only. I have the same problem with the 'J s' command in the
group buffer.

I have clue that there is a problem since, I fetched as usually
this morning my agentized server. When in the train I had tons of
articles (already read), downloaded again and marked as new !!

Note that I suspect this variable
gnus-agent-consider-all-articles to be source of some problems
but with no clue at all.

The docstring is obscur to me:

,----[ C-h v gnus-agent-consider-all-articles RET ]
| gnus-agent-consider-all-articles's value is nil
| 
| When non-nil, the agent will let the agent predicate decide
| whether articles need to be downloaded or not, for all articles.  When
| nil, the default, the agent will only let the predicate decide
| whether unread articles are downloaded or not.  If you enable this,
| groups with large active ranges may open slower and you may also want
| to look into the agent expiry settings to block the expiration of
| read articles as they would just be downloaded again.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Defined in `gnus-agent'.
`----

My problem is that even switching it to t doesn't solve the problem...
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