Re: OffGnus

[Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@PrescientTech.com>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

LMI> 1) Always downloads all headers, and
LMI> 2) Uses a scoring scheme to say what articles to download, and
LMI>    also downloads articles that have been manually marked for
LMI>    download, no matter what their scores are.

Up to this point we agree.  What I want is an additional check on the
length of the article, after the first round of scoring is performed.
If the article is bigger than some length, regardless of score, it
should not be automatically downloaded.

Just for example, a modified chunk of my summary buffer:

   :  258|Rich Pieri           Re: OffGnus
   : 1284| Lars Magne Ingebrigt 

I do not want "your" 1284-line article scored low; but I neither do I
want to automatically download it, because I am on a 14.4Kb modem link.
I do want it to appear in its "proper" place in the summary buffer.  If
I try to select that article I should be prompted to download it if I am
in on-line mode, or marked for downloading later in off-line mode.

With just normal scoring, I would either have to download the article
(assuming automatic downloading is turned on) or score it low so that it
is not automatically downloaded (thus pushing it out of thread order).

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.3a
Charset: noconv

iQCVAwUBMueZ4p6VRH7BJMxHAQHg0AP9HQVdGZkTm4aJYLy/hmkEI1KIMg4Gsnqr
hiptHQgAf9lL4d9BS/TqfCmE7FbKlI5+skQMxr3870HaBT6bXAinKuLVghjTyzRb
hhwpvXQw/CZtHVb3qlwETjYpX5NW5zTJCSr2ZywGhtab2PPnC1hknP7glsM9a6L/
jmTpuepChZA=
=qgZh
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-- 
Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> | When not in use, Happy Fun Ball
Prescient Technologies, Inc.              | should be returned to its special
A Stone & Webster Company                 | container and kept under
I speak for myself, not PTI or SWEC       | refrigeration.