Re: Lamer walk thru downloads hundreds of old messages

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> 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.

As it happens it isn't so much about subject as author.  But I take
your point and of course can do / a author <RET> to find what I want.

So, I guess there is not a command that will mark threads for download
in some kind of en-masse fashion?

Do you mean there is a way to do A T en-masse, just process mark? Or
are you talking about doing all the A T by hand?


In your scheme would the mesgs then be downloaded or do you mean to just leave
them online?

I did finally manage to remember how to apply the gnus download toggle
en-masse but where I'm losing site of things is getting these messages
downloaded.

I expect to copy or move (once I get them downloaded into agents
hierarchy) several thousands of msgs to an appropriate place where I
can use my own perl scripts to extract information quickly.

So far, after doing more research, I've put gmane under the agent.  
I've created a category 'true' and I've added certain groups to the
category.  I suspect that will just down load everything..... And I'd
sooner know how to download only those process marked.

Probably first need to undo that 'true' category... ?