Re: Downloading articles into the agent

[Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>]

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

> > > I don't follow you.  Pre-mark?  In what way?  
> > 
> > Mark them as downloadable when the summary buffer is generated,
> > instead of downloading them the first time around.  This is mainly a
> > matter of convenience.
> 
> Uhm...  Why would you want to mark the articles as downloadable at
> that point?  Why not just download them?

I want them premarked as downloadable so that I can easily unmark the
ones that I don't really want to download.

Consider, for example, news.groups.  I decided early on that
sci.bio.spanish was a Crawling Horror From the Sewers of Hell[tm] and
that I was going to vote against it and am relying on adaptive scoring
to ignore the threads that the RFD has spawned into oblivion.  But
Russ Albury and Joe Bernstein keep throwing in comments in a futile
attempt to show the proponents the errors of their ways.  They've
built up high enough positive scores over the course of other
discussions to override the negative scores on the threads, and I want
to maintain that since their commenting often brings to my attention
discussions that I might otherwise overlook, but I don't really need
to bother reading their views on this issue again.
-- 
I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready
to make the commitment.