From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2257 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus Agent and cached articles. Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:31:43 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87llyxd9dc.fsf@cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668756 14496 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:52:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:25 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.241.87.5 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1049121329 19229 65.241.87.5 (31 Mar 2003 14:35:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Mar 2003 14:35:29 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VxGgfowij0WTYg3jym/v8ApQiXo= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2397 Original-Lines: 22 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2397 Tue Jan 17 17:30:25 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2257 Archived-At: Gaute B Strokkenes writes: > I recently moved my gnus setup from a shared machine to my own > (dialup) system. I have started to use the agent, and it seems to > work quite well, with one exception. I am still using the same news > server. In one group I have literally thousands of unread articles > that I entered into the cache using `*' a long time before I started > using the agent. When I am unplugged I can read these articles just > fine, but the agent seem to consider these articles `undownloaded' and > thus inaccessible. For instance, they appear in the same colour in > the summary buffer and, more importantly, commands such as `n' will > ignore these articles. > > It would be really nice if the agent was smart enough to know that > these articles are accessible even when unplugged. Agreed. Unfortunately, this will take some time as it implies that the agent should check for the cache at many different execution points. I'll look into the problem and see what can be done. Kevin