Re: Downloading articles into the agent

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

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

> Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> writes:
> 
> > I'm not entirely sure that I see the need for a distinction.  I used
> > Forte Agent for over a year before switching to Gnus (and still use it
> > for some purposes), and my strategy was always to connect and grab
> > headers, disconnect and mark them, then reconnect to get the bodies.
> 
> If you don't want the Gnus agent to fetch any articles automatically,
> that's no problem.  I don't quite see why you'd want that, though.

Timing.  This is actually more of a concern in Gnus than it was in
Agent, since Emacs doesn't multitask.  I don't especially want to wait
an hour or so while bodies download before I can read my mail or start
reviewing the articles that weren't downloaded automatically.

> > What I'd hope to see in an agent mode for Gnus would be normal scoring
> > on at least the NOV information and pre-marking everything scoring
> > higher than N in a newgroup, then showing the summary buffer so that I
> > could make adjustments in what actually gets downloaded.
> 
> 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.
-- 
I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready
to make the commitment.