Agent and gnus-group-clear-data

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

Hi,

shouldn't `gnus-group-clear-data' also clear the agent data?

See the following thread on gnu.emacs.gnus:

| From: rahed <rahed@e-last-minute.com>
| Subject: article reset on the server
| Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
| Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:55:42 +0100
| Message-ID: <uek54omqp.fsf@e-last-minute.com>
| http://www.google.de/groups?as_umsgid=v9u0e01n7m.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de&hl=en

On Tue, Nov 29 2005, rahed wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:
>>> M-c cleared all article marks but article numbers are untouched. So
>>> after entering the group I can see only old subject names articles. New
>>> ones which do exist on the server are consequently seen as read by the gnus.
>>
>> `M-c' doesn't fail for me:
>>
>> ,----[ Output of `G E' before `M-c' ]
>> | ("gmane.announce" 3
>> |  ((1 . 7483)
>> |   (7485 . 7492))
>> |  ((seen
>> |    (7448 . 7492))))
>> `----
>>
>> Note that the read article ranges "(1 . 7483) (7485 . 7492)" disappear
>> after `M-c':
>>
>> ,----[ Output of `G E' after `M-c' ]
>> | ("gmane.announce" 3 nil nil)
>> `----
>>
>> I noticed that `M c' doesn't clear the data in the .agentview file of
>> the group.  Maybe this matters.
>>
>> ,----[ cat News/agent/nntp/localhost/gmane/announce/.agentview ]
>> | ((7448 . 732279) (7449 . 732279) [...]
>> |  (7491 . 732279) (7492 . 732279))
>> `----
[...]
> Thank you for following me. After deleting .agentview for the group
> everything is back to normal.

Bye, Reiner.
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