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Help With Agent
Okay, most of the threads in the ng today are dated January 13th. :}
I subscribed to the German newsserver and downloaded Agent. I spent an hour or so configuring it so that everything appeared to work. And then I tried to download the newsgroup, and got the message that it was "empty." Downloaded headers, and they have no body. Huh? I asked for help earlier, but the way it's going here, I won't see any of today's replies until next month. So if any of you Agent users could be so kind as to e-mail me, I would really appreciate the assistance. Thanks in advance! -- Family Dog Trainer "It's A Dog's Life" http://hometown.aol.com/dfrntdrums/m...age/index.html Get Healthy, Build Your Immune System, Lose Weight http://www.re-vita.net/dfrntdrums |
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:58:07 -0500, shelly
wrote: go to the Group pull-down menu, then go to Default Properties. go to the Retrieve tab. Check the box next "Retrieve bodies for all new messages." you can also check the box next to "Do not retrieve bodies longer than X lines." i have it set to 200 lines, which filters out a *lot* of the dim-wits who reply to JarJar and don't trim. click OK. Do you (or anybody else, for that matter) know if Agent applies kill-filters *before* it downloads the bodies? I.e. (1)gets the headers, (2)weeds out the dreck, (3)downloads bodies for what's left. (I'd hate to think it was downloading bodies it already knows (or *should* already know) it's going to delete anyway...) Lee |
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:02:19 -0800, Lee DeRaud
wrote: On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:58:07 -0500, shelly wrote: go to the Group pull-down menu, then go to Default Properties. go to the Retrieve tab. Check the box next "Retrieve bodies for all new messages." you can also check the box next to "Do not retrieve bodies longer than X lines." i have it set to 200 lines, which filters out a *lot* of the dim-wits who reply to JarJar and don't trim. click OK. Do you (or anybody else, for that matter) know if Agent applies kill-filters *before* it downloads the bodies? I.e. (1)gets the headers, (2)weeds out the dreck, (3)downloads bodies for what's left. (I'd hate to think it was downloading bodies it already knows (or *should* already know) it's going to delete anyway...) I have my killfiles set to mark read and when I look at the whole thread, it shows the headers marked as read, but the bodies are not downloaded. If I want to see what the killfiled person said, I have to tell it to download the body of that header. But then, I have my Agent set to download headers only as the default. I want to decide what bodies I want downloaded before it goes ahead and does it. If you wanted to test it, you would just have to have someone who has theirs set to download all headers (Janet?) set a killfile and then look in the All Messages view to see if it shows as just a header or if the killfiled message has a body. -- Paula "Or if you really want to meet me just take the NJT to 78, take 78 to 24, take 24 until it runs out, and then just drive around listening for the sound of quietly smoldering rage." Ben Allard |
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:25:17 GMT, Handsome Jack Morrison
wrote: On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:02:19 -0800, Lee DeRaud wrote: [] Do you (or anybody else, for that matter) know if Agent applies kill-filters *before* it downloads the bodies? I.e. (1)gets the headers, (2)weeds out the dreck, (3)downloads bodies for what's left. I *think* that's how it works, Lee, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it, either. It also might depend on whether you've set the action to Delete or to just Mark Read, and whether or not you *automatically* download bodies. That's kinda what I meant: I currently just download headers and it applies the killfile on-the-fly, before it displays the new headers. With the kind of bandwidth I've got now, I was thinking of going ahead and downloading bodies as well. (But yeah, I always use 'delete'...when I killfile somebody, I want them to bloody well *stay* "dead".) Lee |
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:17:30 -0800, Lee DeRaud
wrote: (But yeah, I always use 'delete'...when I killfile somebody, I want them to bloody well *stay* "dead".) Lee lol - that is my choice as well. I've been pretty freely killfiling anyone who quotes PW without any other content of any particular topic. It sure cuts down on the noise. -- Janet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:41:33 GMT, Paula
wrote: But then, I have my Agent set to download headers only as the default. same here, so i can't answer the question. my connection is so spectacularly hinky that i'm not even in a position to test out what it does when you change settings to download bodies automagically. -- shelly http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvrette || http://cat-sidh.blogspot.com Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. -- Paul Klee |
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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:50:33 -0500, shelly
wrote: same here, so i can't answer the question. my connection is so spectacularly hinky that i'm not even in a position to test out what it does when you change settings to download bodies automagically. -- Mine says "get new headers for subscribed groups" and in view "new messages only" -- Janet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
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