From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84421 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Lamer walk thru downloads hundreds of old messages Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:03:54 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <874n264445.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87wqf3xlce.fsf@newsguy.com> <871txatgy7.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396814682 14249 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2014 20:04:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 20:04:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32667@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Apr 06 22:04:35 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 1WWtIw-0005lJ-RT for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:04:35 +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 1WWtIf-0005oT-EU; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:04:17 -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 1WWtIc-0005nx-Fm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:04:14 -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 1WWtIa-0001E8-TL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:04:14 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WWtIY-0005xM-PM for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:04:10 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWtIX-0005S2-J8 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:04:09 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:04:09 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:04:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TIzm3Davcr1cb7ZuRVO+QKaYgqI= X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84421 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> 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. As it happens it isn't so much about subject as author. But I take your point and of course can do / a author 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... ?