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 6.9 Gnus Unplugged
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 In olden times (ca.  February ’88), people used to run their newsreaders
 on big machines with permanent connections to the net.  News transport
 was dealt with by news servers, and all the newsreaders had to do was to
 read news.  Believe it or not.
 
    Nowadays most people read news and mail at home, and use some sort of
 modem to connect to the net.  To avoid running up huge phone bills, it
 would be nice to have a way to slurp down all the news and mail, hang up
 the phone, read for several hours, and then upload any responses you
 have to make.  And then you repeat the procedure.
 
    Of course, you can use news servers for doing this as well.  I’ve
 used ‘inn’ together with ‘slurp’, ‘pop’ and ‘sendmail’ for some years,
 but doing that’s a bore.  Moving the news server functionality up to the
 newsreader makes sense if you’re the only person reading news on a
 machine.
 
    Setting up Gnus as an “offline” newsreader is quite simple.  In fact,
 you don’t have to configure anything as the agent is now enabled by
 default (Seegnus-agent Agent Variables.).
 
    Of course, to use it as such, you have to learn a few new commands.

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· Agent Basics                How it all is supposed to work.
· Agent Categories            How to tell the Gnus Agent what to download.
· Agent Commands              New commands for all the buffers.
· Agent Visuals               Ways that the agent may effect your summary buffer.
· Agent as Cache              The Agent is a big cache too.
· Agent Expiry                How to make old articles go away.
· Agent Regeneration          How to recover from lost connections and other accidents.
· Agent and flags             How the Agent maintains flags.
· Agent and IMAP              How to use the Agent with IMAP.
· Outgoing Messages           What happens when you post/mail something?
· Agent Variables             Customizing is fun.
· Example Setup               An example ‘~/.gnus.el’ file for offline people.
· Batching Agents             How to fetch news from a ‘cron’ job.
· Agent Caveats               What you think it’ll do and what it does.
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