Re: Marking for agent download unmarks as read

[Wes Hardaker <wes@sharedlists.com>]

>>>>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 23:21:20 +0200, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> said:

>> Why does the Agent remove `read' marks when using J # or @ to mark an
>> article for download?

Simon> I didn't look at the code, but is this unwanted behaviour?  If
Simon> you want to download the article, you don't want it marked as
Simon> read, do you?

Yes, actually I do some of the time at least.  The way I treat many of
my folders is that I have display set to !expired, and hence I see all
the old messages.  unread in these folders really means "needs a
response", and read really means "kept around for informational
purposes, or things that I need to look at but aren't crucial".  It's
a way of prioritizing, if you want to look at it another way.  ticked
= high, unread = medium, read = low.  My work boxes, inboxes, etc are
this way and has forced expiry on it.

The problem is that when I want to go offline I actually do want
unread stuff to, but I certainly don't want the read mark to go away.

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