From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84418 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Lamer walk thru downloads hundreds of old messages Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 22:06:41 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87wqf3xlce.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396750075 7984 80.91.229.3 (6 Apr 2014 02:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 02:07:55 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32664@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Apr 06 04:07:48 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 1WWcUu-0007JJ-6q for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 04:07:48 +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 1WWcUE-0002jJ-Uk; Sat, 05 Apr 2014 21:07:07 -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 1WWcUC-0002j5-7t for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 05 Apr 2014 21:07:04 -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 1WWcUA-00079p-Vn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 05 Apr 2014 21:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WWcU9-0006WA-0s for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 04:07:01 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WWcU8-0006gP-KA for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2014 04:07:00 +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 04:07:00 +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 04:07:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:quEx28b5EdRIjYYsXuvYk2Haios= X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84418 Archived-At: I'm pretty baffled with something that I used to do constantly using gnus agent, but some yrs ago I quit doing any actual downloading since gmane keeps the groups for so long... there just was no need. Consequently I've forgotten just about everything about how to do it. 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. My category predicate is the default 'short' Not sure if that matters. Is it just a matter of plopping the % mark and telling the agent to get at it?