From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51270 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent, unplugged use, and nnvirtual Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 20:35:45 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049765776 4946 80.91.224.249 (8 Apr 2003 01:36:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 01:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Tue Apr 08 03:36:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192i22-0001Hd-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 03:36:14 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 192i1u-0008L2-00; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 20:36:06 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 07 Apr 2003 20:37:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [64.157.176.121]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA03953 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 20:36:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 94043 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2003 01:35:51 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 94038 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2003 01:35:50 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Apr 2003 01:35:50 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192i4y-0007RE-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 03:39:16 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: manchester-suites-iaf1047853.cust-rtr.ameritech.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1049765956 28557 68.23.64.46 (8 Apr 2003 01:39:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Apr 2003 01:39:16 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:90dOd+4Ei0YFas56VIAKMG2iP0o= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51270 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51270 David S Goldberg writes: > After some growing pains when the code first changed, the current > state of the agent code has convinced me of its utility and I use it > regularly to deal with my mail groups (nnimap). For the past week, in > anticipation of some long travel, I decided to try it for some of the > nntp groups I read. A long time ago, I used persistent articles > (e.g. the cache) to keep around articles in nntp groups that I thought > were particularly useful. After losing many of them when my employer > installed a new server I decided to use a different approach. For > each nntp group I have an equivalent nnml group and an nnvirtual group > that ties them together. I keep the nntp and nnml groups subscribed > at level 5 and the nnvirtual at level 3 which is my default reading > level. So far so good. I tried adding the nnvirtual groups to the > agent. No dice. Nothing even got downloaded. So I removed the > nnvirtual groups and added the nntp groups. Now the articles get > downloaded but when running unplugged, the nnvirtual group does not > see them. If I enter the nntp group directly I do see them, so the > agent is working. I therefore suspect a bug in nnvirtual. Or am I > just totally confused? Nope. I think that you're right on. I looked at the agent and nnvirtual once and found similar problems. It's going to be a while before I have a chance to look into it again. Kevin