From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48799 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The Agent now downloading gigs of old articles... Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 01:24:38 -0600 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 1041837996 28232 80.91.224.249 (6 Jan 2003 07:26:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 07:26:36 +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 18VRec-0007LE-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 08:26:34 +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 18VRdB-0000Vu-00; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 01:25:05 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 06 Jan 2003 01:26:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA06348 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 01:25:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 94791 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2003 07:24:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 94784 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2003 07:24:46 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 6 Jan 2003 07:24:46 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18VRfp-0006UR-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 08:27:49 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.12.206.252 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041838069 24950 216.12.206.252 (6 Jan 2003 07:27:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Jan 2003 07:27:49 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:img/gaCVY20mzBCNNscdX8RrwCg= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48799 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48799 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com writes: > >> As for uncached, well I'd been reading too many old articles >> suggesting that the cache and agent should be merged. > > That may be the case, but probably not. The cache is for storing > stuff you want forever. The Agent is an offline news reader with > expiry and stuff. They happen to be implemented pretty similarly, > but the functionality is pretty different. > >> Personally, I also prefer uncached as a word than undownloaded or >> unfetched. > > Well, it's quite confusing to call variables according to what they > aren't. > OK, I'll agree that I missed the call on the variable names. The only problem is that, if I change them now, anyone who customized the face by the old name will loose their customization. Should I care? You just made a release, does that make this a good time for this sort of fix? Kevin