From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37459 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: Cache/Agent unification Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 14:00:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172871 14015 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:01:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:01:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 17257 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2001 12:00:33 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 12:00:33 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id OAA01571 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:00:06 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id OAA25460; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:00:06 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id OAA09622; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:00:04 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 04 Aug 2001 13:17:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 26 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37459 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37459 I like your suggestions. A couple of things come to mind, though: * Currently, the cache is being used to keep articles around even after they've expired from the server. But for disconnected operation, you expect the local cache to be a more-or-less exact mirror of the server state. Hence, for disconnected operation you want local copies to disappear when they disappear from the server. * You're right about the disk space requirements. Maybe really old articles shouldn't be in the local cache. Hm. Maybe it would be enough to provide a couple of commands to add articles to the cache and to remove them. Examples: - Add each article as it is read. - Add all articles visible in the current summary buffer. - Add all unread articles. - Remove old, read, articles. - Never cache this group. - Always cache all articles from that group. Thoughts? kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory