Re: feature request: split --fetch to --post-queued --fetch-overview --fetch-selected-bodies

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:20:18AM +0100, Mirko Liss wrote:
> Please look at noffle/src/noffle.c, at the procedures doFetch()
> and main(). It is _very_ easy to implement, indeed.
> 
> Just copy doFetch() and delete some of the 'connOk = connOk &&'-lines.
> The command line options will be parsed using a switch()-case-structure
> in the main()-procedure. It's easy to insert a new option.

OK, I'll take a look at it then. Tomorow :) , it's really late here ... 

> What do you think about a fetch mode that does actually avoid
> downloading overviews of new articles? You won't be able to filter
> articles and you won't get articles from groups that have been
> subscribed in 'over' or in 'thread' mode.

Because downloading the overviews takes much more time then 
downloading the selected articles. What I do is I download the 
overviews during the night. And when I come to the computer I just 
select articles which have subjects that interest me. I'd then want to 
just fetch the selected bodies to read those articles, and then write 
some replies an then post these replies. I don't want downloading new 
article overviews this day - that will be done next night. I think it 
will be useful for people with slow links, who do newsreading this way 
like me - download only overviews only once daily duging the night, 
but want just the selected bodies to be downloaded right now, so they 
can reply, and go on doing different things.

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