From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41833 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent as cache Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:53:46 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2nadvm2ex1.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> <2n8zb5ehqx.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177166 8176 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:12:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 21240 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 08:54:49 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 08:54:49 -0000 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 16OxSO-0003Ib-00; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:54:36 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:54:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA26203 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:54:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 21234 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2002 08:54:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21229 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 08:54:20 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 08:54:20 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g0B8rqb23556 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:53:52 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id JAA12461; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:53:47 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 545753B2A7; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:53:46 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <2n8zb5ehqx.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> (ShengHuo ZHU's message of "Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:36:22 -0500") Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41833 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41833 ShengHuo ZHU writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> ShengHuo ZHU writes: >> >>> I'll check in some codes which enable Gnus to cache NOV of any method >>> covered by gnus-agent. Some behaviors of gnus-agent may be buggy. If >>> it bothers you, (setq gnus-agent-cache nil). Of course, bug reports >>> and patches are welcome. >> >> ShengHuo, what benefit will this provide? >> What is the practical aim of this move? > > The benefit is saving time and bandwidth, i.e. Gnus use the copy of > NOVs or articles in the agent if they are downloaded. Ah, so it doesn't only pertain to the NOV data, but also to the articles? And this means that Gnus takes the Agentized copy of the data even when online? Way cool. kai -- Simplification good! Oversimplification bad! (Larry Wall)