Re: [Noffle-users] gnus noffle Summary downloaded status

[Jim H. <jim...@ac...>]

On 26-Dec-2003 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> It seems when using noffle, in for one's average newsreader program,
> one cannot tell when viewing all the titles of one group, which
> articles have been downloaded, and which haven't.  Attempts to read
> articles that haven't been downloaded yet put them on the to_get list.
>
> So, if one just wants to browse the articles that have already been
> downloaded of a group, without poking the ones not downloaded yet, one
> is out of luck, unless one has made previous markings in that group.

Well, gnus isn't really expecting to be connecting to a news server that
wouldn't have downloaded the article content (for gnus people, Noffle can be
configured to do this, similar to Leafnode's delaybody option).

> Perhaps a gnus extension to show article downloaded status, could be
> made for gnus Summary buffers.

I've never dug much in gnus. I assume that the data shown in the summary buffer
is derived from an XOVER for NNTP sources. Is it possible to set a summary
indicator based on either the result of an XHDR enquiry or an extension field
in XOVER results? Adding either to Noffle to supply the appropriate indicator
would be simple.

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Jim Hague - jim...@ac...          Never trust a computer you can't lift.