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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> Nonetheless, I'm wondering if there's a way to mark articles in such a
>> way that these marks are stored in the .marks file (instead of the back
>> end), so that articles marked in this way will never be queried from the
>> back end unless some special command is typed.
>
> Read articles are never queried except in special
> circumstances...  And you have hit them.
>
> Maybe it would help if Gnus asked you about how many articles to
> fetch.  Does it do that if gnus-large-newsgroup is small enough?

Well, ideally I wouldn't get prompted, which is what happens in the
`gnus-large-newsgroup' logic.  But a prompt is better than nothing, I
guess ...


> --=20
> Ambibibentists unite!
>

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 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com