From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56095 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Need suggestions for changing agent's downloadable mark. Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:41:29 -0600 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87llo52ksi.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074483712 9819 80.91.224.253 (19 Jan 2004 03:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4635@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jan 19 04:41:48 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 1AiQIO-0002hf-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 04:41:48 +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 1AiQIF-0006T6-00; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:41:39 -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 1AiQIA-0006T1-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:41:34 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D862E3A0057 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:41:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiQI9-0004vJ-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 04:41:33 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-216-12-206-154.ev1.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1074483693 17341 216.12.206.154 (19 Jan 2004 03:41:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:41:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UqzRHPEEhv1QmtrUnkAolm7iuX8= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56095 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56095 Kai Grossjohann writes: > Kevin Greiner writes: > >> 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. > > Doesn't the agent already have a feature where it does things with > articles that aren't on the server anymore? Maybe it deletes NOV > lines for those articles? It could also remove the downloadable mark > for them. I believe that you're thinking of gnus-agent-expire. It's a possibility. I was hoping for something more automatic. > While it is possible to download read articles, and users *might* wish > to do that, we can be pretty sure that articles that aren't on the > server any more are really not downloadable anymore ;-) Well, I wasn't planning to forbid marking read articles. Especially as the agent has a flag for marked newly fetched articles as unread (that does seem to imply that some people fetch read articles). What I was thinking of was a good deal more subtle. That is, you could mark a read article in the current gnus session and fetch it, but you could not mark that read article in this gnus session and then fetch it in a future gnus session. Hmmm... That's probably sufficiently subtle that people encountering it would call it a bug. Kevin