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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam <hgp@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>> I'm thinking  it might be possible to somehow tie a date to `A T' so
>> one could say `C-u 2 A T' and parse only 2wks back instead of all
>> $LARGNUMBER messages.
>
> You can't know in advance how many headers you have to fetch to get
> two week's worth of headers.
>
> `C-u 1000 A T' will fetch the previous 1000 headers.

Yeah, thats what I was looking for... thanks.