files for and see if we can't incorporate it all into the POM. Or if we do
 have properties file (something I would like to avoid) say they don't
 contribute in any meaningful way to information in the POM. For example a
 properties file could be used the specify $ so it can be interpolated in
 <developerConnection/> but you couldn't use a properties file to specify the
 version of your project say. Anyway, food for thought to begin with.

  * If not otherwise specified, all other wagons are assumed to be
    remote-only, and are therefore sensitive to offline mode.

** Maven-Artifact

  This is wholly dependent on Maven-Wagon, above.

  We could possibly use a flag on a particular Wagon to see whether it supports
  offline mode, and then test to see if the file-based basedir for an artifact
  repository works...if it doesn't work, we can mark that repository offline...