From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84420 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Lamer walk thru downloads hundreds of old messages Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:07:28 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <871txatgy7.fsf@dod.no> References: <87wqf3xlce.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396811327 5890 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2014 19:08:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 19:08:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32666@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Apr 06 21:08:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWsQp-00052R-2P for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:08:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WWsQ3-0005Yj-Ky; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 14:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WWsQ0-0005YQ-H6 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 14:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WWsPy-00013d-Kp for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 14:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WWsPw-0004eK-IB for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWsPw-0004En-BV for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no ([84.208.248.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:07:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E/pTEsIfCnoh33BTQIEjI0tCM3U= X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84420 Archived-At: >>>>> Harry Putnam : > 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.