From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50141 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap usage model Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:35:07 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84wuk1togu.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045406466 3155 80.91.224.249 (16 Feb 2003 14:41:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 14:41:06 +0000 (UTC) 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 18kPya-0000od-00 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:41:04 +0100 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 18kQ0J-000539-00; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:42:51 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:43:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA13574 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:43:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18kPxk-0000mW-00 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:40:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18kPqf-0000Sq-00 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:32:53 +0100 Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:M3pCv+T8/cDHjw+PKA3/uCpPkvM= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50141 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50141 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > David Abrahams writes: > >> NOTE: also, I'm not really sure what I'm getting from >> gnus-agent-cache. All I can find in the documentation says "the agent >> is also a big cache!" Can somebody explain what that means? > > Well, after you do `J s' from the *Group* header, a lot of articles > end up on your local disk, under ~/News/agent. Then you can do `J j' > in the *Group* buffer and then read news from your local disk. That helps a bit, but I'm still in the dark. If I had gnus-agent-cache == nil (the default), I wouldn't be able to use `J s'? Or what? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com