Re: Reading old news

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net> writes:

> Can I get the last week worth of articles from a group directly? nnir on
> large groups is slow if all I need is a search in the last ~500 articles.
> Right now to do that I simply enter an existing group, enter a large
> (but random) number of articles to read, then limit.

I think that's basically the only way to do this.  Gnus has to download
the headers to see how old the articles are, so there's not really much
room for improvement.  But, I mean, one could envision a command saying
"show me last week's articles", and Gnus would first download header N,
and see how old that article is, and then use binary searching (or
something) to find the right cutoff point.  But this would entail a lot
of ping-ponging with the server, so it would probably be somewhat slow.

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