From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11160 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Croyle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Downloading articles into the agent Date: 29 May 1997 01:22:22 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150918 28670 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:55:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA31683 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 00:32:20 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01015 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 00:32:13 -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 CAA01996 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 02:31:34 -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, 29 May 1997 08:22:46 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3994 invoked by uid 504); 29 May 1997 06:22:45 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3991 invoked from network); 29 May 1997 06:22:44 -0000 Original-Received: from sirius.infonex.com (root@206.170.114.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 29 May 1997 06:22:44 -0000 Original-Received: from GELEMNA (fw3-33.fwi.com [207.113.68.187]) by sirius.infonex.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA13521 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 23:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 28 May 1997 21:54:53 +0200 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.55/Emacs 19.34 Original-Lines: 29 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1550 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11160 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11160 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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.