Reading some articles from multiple groups

[Steve Baumgarten <sbb@panix.com>]

I'm wondering if this can be done in September Gnus (and if not, if it
could be considered for Red).  I read several of the Mac newsgroups
but have no real hope of keeping up with all the volume in each.
Basically I choose 3 or 4 groups each day and scan the 100 or 200 most
recent postings (i.e., pressing '=' and entering 100 or 200, then
visually scanning for subjects of interest).

I know I can create a virtual newsgroup that contains those 3 or 4
Mac newsgroups, but then the virtual group would contain all the
articles from all the underlying groups.  

What I'd like is a way to create a virtual group that contains a
number of articles to take from each underlying group; then as long as
each of the underlying groups has, say, more than 100 unread articles,
the virtual group would indicate that it had 300 to read (3 underlying
groups * 100 articles from each).  Then pressing '=' would display the
top 100 articles from each of the underlying groups.

Is this possible now?

Steve Baumgarten
sbb@panix.com