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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: when one has a list of 35 groups one wants to subscribe to
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:06:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwvy905a.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762wu7m2q.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:55:57 +0800")

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

>>>>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
> TH> When I want to subscribe to many groups, I enter that server via the
> TH> *Server* buffer so that I can see the complete group listing and use
> TH> isearch to find my groups.  So I guess, a link to the server buffer
> TH> would be a good thing to have in that section.  (I'll add one...)
>
> But there are a million groups in there. And my 35 groups are probably
> scattered among them, so I would still have to find them one by one.

Do you know `isearch' (C-s)?

> But I already have my list, one group per line, ready. But there is no
> way for me to submit it to gnus. It is not as simple as
> $ < list_of_groups xargs -n 1 other_leading_brand_newsreader --subscribe

Well, yes, I think there's nothing like that.  But since that's only a
one time effort unless you change your interests on a daily basis... :-)

Bye,
Tassilo



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-22  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-22  3:54 jidanni
2010-10-22  6:47 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-10-22  6:55   ` jidanni
2010-10-22  7:06     ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2010-10-22  7:11       ` jidanni
2010-10-22  7:28         ` Tassilo Horn
2010-10-22 10:15           ` Kan-Ru Chen
2010-10-22 10:41             ` jidanni
2010-10-22  9:17         ` Steinar Bang
2010-10-22 17:50     ` James Cloos
2010-10-22  7:13   ` [PATCH] Mention subscriptions via Server buffer at Subscription Commands (was: when one has a list of 35 groups one wants to subscribe to) Tassilo Horn
2010-10-22  7:18     ` [PATCH] Mention subscriptions via Server buffer at Subscription Commands jidanni
2010-10-22 14:53     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-24 16:58 when one has a list of 35 groups one wants to subscribe to JJ
2010-10-24 17:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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