I use the Agent for reading news offline (because I don't have an Internet connection for many hours of the day). I only read a handful of news groups offline, but the Agent downloads the headers for every single group on my agentised servers. This takes about fifteen or twenty minutes every time I do `J s' because I have very many groups on those servers (most of which I only read about once a year). Downloading the actual news for the groups I'm interested in reading offline only takes about a minute, so it seems insane to download all these headers that I don't want.
How can I tell the Agent to not download even the headers for a group? Currently I have one Agent category for each of my agentised groups. That is the "default" category and it is set to 0 (by the Agent when it first set itself up). For the groups I want to read offline I have group parameters that tell the Agent to retrieve all messages (I have a `true' predicate). It seems I need an Agent predicate that is more strongly negative than `false', something like `not-even-headers'. I suppose I might be asking the wrong question, since the Agent predicates are to tell the Agent which articles to get, it must have already retrieved the unwanted headers before it even starts applying the predicates. So I need a way of telling the Agent at a higher level not to even get the headers. But I don't see anything useful in the documentation. What am I missing? Thanks. Regards, N. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english