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6.8.1 Agent Basics

First, let's get some terminology out of the way.

The Gnus Agent is said to be unplugged when you have severed the connection to the net (and notified the Agent that this is the case). When the connection to the net is up again (and Gnus knows this), the Agent is plugged.

The local machine is the one you're running on, and which isn't connected to the net continuously.

Downloading means fetching things from the net to your local machine. Uploading is doing the opposite.

Let's take a typical Gnus session using the Agent.

Here are some things you should do the first time (or so) that you use the Agent.


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