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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com>
Cc: 48801@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48801: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Feature suggestion gnus-retrieve-headers check for nov-is-evil when agent is enabled
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2021 11:59:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2bjl5ox.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r1hbmwgl.fsf@bochannek.com> (Alex Bochannek's message of "Tue,  08 Jun 2021 22:35:38 -0700")

Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com> writes:

> However, I don't see a way to set `nntp-nov-is-evil' for a group in a
> way that would still be true when it is part of a virtual group.

Perhaps the easiest would be to create a separate select method for
these groups that has nntp-nov-is-evil set as a select method variable.

> As an experiment, I globally set `nntp-nov-is-evil' to `t' and disabled
> the agent to see if it even works. I ran into a lot of problems where
> Gnus lost track of the unread messages for simple NNTP groups. Is this
> expected or is this potentially a bug?

Sounds like a bug to me.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-09  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-02 21:13 bug#48801: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Feature suggestion gnus-retrieve-headers check for nov-is-evil when agent is enabled Alex Bochannek
2021-06-03  7:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-03 18:01   ` Alex Bochannek
2021-06-04  9:35     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-04 17:40       ` Alex Bochannek
2021-06-06  9:36         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-06 17:51           ` Alex Bochannek
2021-06-08  9:57             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-08 15:50               ` Alex Bochannek
2021-06-09  5:35               ` Alex Bochannek
2021-06-09  9:59                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-06-09 18:05                   ` Alex Bochannek
2021-06-09 18:14                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-09 18:47                       ` Alex Bochannek
2021-06-09 18:55                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-09 19:04                           ` Alex Bochannek
2021-06-12 12:10                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-12 17:49                           ` Alex Bochannek

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