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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> The agent currently has some hard coded default to not download
> already read articles.  I wrote a patch long time ago (posted here)
> that added a `read' Agent predicate to fix this, but that isn't
> backwards compatible and means everyone has to change agent
> predicates, which isn't good, so I'm not sure if it can be added.

Can it be made backwards-compatible?  Can't you make it so that by
default, read articles are not downloaded, like now?  Then people can
frob their agent predicates to also download read articles.

Or am I missing something obvious?

kai
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