From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Lamer walk thru downloads hundreds of old messages
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:07:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871txatgy7.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqf3xlce.fsf@newsguy.com>
>>>>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>:
> I suddenly have need of downloading hundreds of old messages from a
> gmane group.... I have 10,000 msgs from that group in the summary
> buffer at this moment... and suddenly realized I did not know for sure
> what to do to make my selected several hundred get downloaded.
What about searching for the articles, using `G G', and then using `A T'
to extract the threads into the Summary buffer and then ticking them?
Repeat until all of the interesting articles are ticked.
If they are all in one thread it should be quickly done.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-06 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-06 2:06 Harry Putnam
2014-04-06 19:07 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2014-04-06 20:03 ` Harry Putnam
2014-04-07 5:37 ` Steinar Bang
2014-04-07 17:24 ` Harry Putnam
2014-04-07 21:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-04-08 3:07 ` Harry Putnam
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