From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32152 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Liebreich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How many articles - unread + some number as default Date: 13 Aug 2000 18:36:03 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168469 18097 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:47:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C70ED051E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:38:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAC11909; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:37:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:35:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA11173 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:35:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from atlas.dnai.com (atlas.dnai.com [207.181.194.95]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A0ED051E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:36:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from neptune.dnai.com (neptune.dnai.com [207.181.194.93]) by atlas.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA16860 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from bedbug.entera.com (dnai-216-15-97-156.cust.dnai.com [216.15.97.156]) by neptune.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA47442 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "13 Aug 2000 20:06:25 +0200" Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32152 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32152 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > 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... I'm just a "whap-the-space-bar" kind of guy, I guess. > > 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? Sure. Some of the groups have > 20000 messages in them, and I'll just have to change the variable again in a year or so. I'll file my solution under personal creative laziness, rather than ask again for its inclusion in the source. -Dave