Re: using agent to accumlate post in agentized groups

[James Thomas]

hput via "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet 
newsreader (in English)" wrote:

> So Can any one provide a step thru to getting started accumulating
> messages with the agent?
>
> I used a `true' predicate back when I was working on it, but don't
> recall much other detail.

If you still want to use the agent (after considering Eric's
suggestion), it should be to finely control the kind of messages you
want downloaded. The 'Agent Basics' section of the manual covers most of
what you need.

Simply agentize the server (J a) and any messages you read will
automatically be saved (unless gnus-agent-eagerly-store-articles is
changed) I also have gnus-agent-enable-expiration set to 'DISABLE to
keep all articles permanently - if you want to expire agent articles
selectively, don't do that, and mark the ones you want to keep (see
'Agent Expiry')

A 'download policy' is only needed if you want to download articles
blindly based on some rule. To read them offline, unplug Gnus (J j) -
you can include the download mark in gnus-summary-line-format to know
whether the article you are about to read is availabe offline.


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