From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13357 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Balker Rasmussen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Agent woes Date: 29 Dec 1997 00:14:50 +0100 Organization: On *my* desk? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152738 8880 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:25:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:25:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07286 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 1997 15:31:05 -0800 Original-Received: from farabi.hpc.uh.edu (farabi.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01091 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 1997 17:32:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@[10.1.1.1]) by farabi.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAN03524; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 01:24:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 28 Dec 1997 17:15:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA27527 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 1997 17:15:44 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 22903 invoked by uid 504); 28 Dec 1997 23:15:32 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22900 invoked from network); 28 Dec 1997 23:15:32 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (qmailr@130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 28 Dec 1997 23:15:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20105 invoked by uid 509); 28 Dec 1997 23:15:28 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pm11-15.image.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 883350927 19868 (None) 194.234.174.145 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Quassia Gnus v0.18/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13357 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13357 This is only half a bug report, because I'm not entirely sure excactly what happens: For agentized groups, Gnus keeps an active file in .../agent/nntp/news.server/agent.lib/active which should keep track of the articles contained under .../agent/nntp/news.server/group/name It appears that pressing 'g' in a plugged session causes the active file to be changed, viz: d:\news\agent\nntp\news.image.dk\agent.lib>diff active "Copy of active" 1c1 < alt.religion.kibology 442887 442842 y --- > alt.religion.kibology 442887 442789 y 5c5 < dk.kultur.film 1381 970 y --- > dk.kultur.film 1379 970 y Note that new articles appeared in the dk.* group, but OLD articles were taken away in the alt.* group! These articles are then completely inaccessible from within Gnus, though they remain in the agent-directory. I changed the active file to contain all the articles after becoming suspicious. Are there any other places this information is mirrored? (The group in question is not cached, though that didn't change anything when I tried.) Surely one of the benefits of the agent should be to defeat expire times on newsservers? -- Lars Balker Rasmussen "No."