From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12459 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Stephens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Agent things Date: 02 Oct 1997 16:30:23 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151991 3891 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:13:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:13:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA01781 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 09:43:43 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA08554 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:36:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 17:34:27 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 24758 invoked by uid 504); 2 Oct 1997 15:34:23 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24755 invoked from network); 2 Oct 1997 15:34:22 -0000 Original-Received: from woozle.isode.com (193.133.227.19) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 1997 15:34:22 -0000 Original-Received: from snake.isode.com by woozle.isode.com with SMTP (local); Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:30:29 +0100 Original-Received: by snake.isode.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA17398; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:30:28 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.65/XEmacs 19.15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12459 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12459 First of all, the agent idea is a great addition to gnus. I've just removed leafnode from my machine, and my fears that I might have to learn INN are abated. There seem to be things missing though (unsurprisingly). As has been pointed out, gnus-agent-expire really ought to be called automatically somewhere, and it certainly ought to be documented; the only current mentions of expiry are for mail. I'm a bit unclear about the usage. I was expecting for it to start off unplugged, but it seems to start plugged. This is sometimes inconvenient (if I get it to slurp up some news, read some, and decide to switch off for a while, it would be nice to finish off reading already obtained news before reconnecting). Is there some easy way to get gnus to start unplugged? Is there some way to persuade the agent to use existing scoring files (especially the ADAPT files) in addition to its own? It seems a bit of an imposition to require me to set up new rules to decide what to download, when gnus already has a pretty good idea of what I'm going to want to read. I ought to be able to add extra bits, like preventing very large articles in some newsgroups, and it certainly ought to err on the side of downloading articles, since many articles I read are ones which gnus isn't all that confident I'll want to read. -- Bruce Stephens B.Stephens@isode.com Isode Ltd.