From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56072 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Need suggestions for changing agent's downloadable mark. Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:36:31 -0600 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074441852 7258 80.91.224.253 (18 Jan 2004 16:04:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4612@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 18 17:04:09 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiFPF-0004qA-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:04:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AiFOe-0004DD-00; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:03:32 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AiFOY-0004D8-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:03:26 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6B73A005D for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:03:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ai5cU-00066d-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:37:10 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.12.206.53 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1074404209 23474 216.12.206.53 (18 Jan 2004 05:36:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 05:36:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fI4CflXJ3F8aQMGSgFYR4GgtXwM= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56072 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56072 I've noticed a problem with the agent's downloadable mark. As gnus currently works, a downloadable mark will persist until either a) the user manually removes it, or b) the agent successfully downloads the marked article. What I've found, by reading my own newsrc file, is that I have a number of ancient downloadable marks stored in it. Apparently, I marked a number of articles as downloadable then changed my mind and ran catchup on the group. Now, the server's active range has moved so I can't get these articles back in the summary buffer to manually remove the mark. I could fix this by editing the newsrc file but I'm concerned that any number of people may have the same unrecognized problem. What I need is a process, either manual or automatic, that cleans up the downloadable marks. Right now, my best idea is to change downloadable marks to say that downloadable marks on READ articles will not be stored in the newsrc file. This is actually a very simple change to implement and, I suspect, that it will have minimal impact on users. Would anyone object to this change? Better yet, does anyone wish to propose an alternative solution? Kevin