Re: Never mind

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

>>>>> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>:

>> I dislike the concept of automatically marking anything as read
>> unless the reader has explicitly done something to cause that to
>> happen.

[snip!]

>> Some means of readilly distinguishing downloaded messages from those for
>> which only headers exist locally needs to be created, even on displays
>> incapable of color or font changes.

> Yes.  The way it does this now is by marking the undownloaded articles
> as read.

Hm... I agree with Rich, in disliking this approach (I mean: they
*aren't* actually read...), but I don't really have a constructive
solution, except to suggest yet another tick mark.

>> It should also be possible to "clump" downloaded articles at the top
>> (or bottom, or maybe wherever) of the summary buffer, optionally
>> overriding threading.

> I think that wouldn't be very useful.

Having them clumped, and visually separate, would be very useful when
your walking through them, and decide which to down load.  They could
enter their normal threading position, after downloading.