Re: [Noffle-users] no way to read just an article without dragging its parents along

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

On 15-Oct-2004 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Whenever you read an article it causes a request for all its parents.
> Indeed,
> J> They are further marked INTERESTING when read or an article that
> J> references them is read
> J>      INTERESTING
> J>      - This message should be downloaded on the next fetch, if it has
> J>        not been downloaded already.
> and this was in overview mode too. I've never used thread mode.

I don't think it's only you that has never used thread mode :-)

I've had a good look through the Noffle code, and I can't see how reading an
article can cause anything other than that article to be fetched, UNLESS Noffle
is in 'online' mode. In online mode, when you read an article that isn't
currently fetched, Noffle goes and fetches it immediately. It also, for reasons
that (a) escape and (b) baffle me, marks all articles referenced by that
article as INTERESTING. Dan, you're not seeing this while in online mode are
you?

This behaviour seems to have been around for a loooonnnngggg time (looking
closer, it appears that Noffle did at one time always mark articles referenced
from a read article as INTERESTING, regardless of online mode.

If no-one objects, I think I might take this bit of code around the back and
shoot it.

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