Re: How many articles - unread + some number as default

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

pixiebob@bigfoot.com writes:

> I use gnus to read mail, especially for some medium-volume mailing lists.
> For the groups into which these mailing lists are split, I keep all old
> articles, and I mark "read" articles as dormant.  This way, I can answer
> (some large number) to the question of "How many articles from ..." when
> entering the group, and I'll most likely see all messages in the threads of
> the new messages.

Or you can just type `1 0 0 0 RET' instead of `RET 1 0 0 0 RET', which
is what I do...

> Since the mail groups have > gnus-large-newsgroup messages, I'm *always*
> prompted for the number of articles to retrieve.

Can't you just increase that variable?

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