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Subject: Re: scoring by article age?
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> "Michael Welsh Duggan" <md5i@schenley.com> writes:
> 
> > As long as you are adding things to the wishlist, I would like to be
> > able to say: retrieve all messages since <date>.  A little extra work
> > would allow it to accept dates like "1 week ago".
> 
> It would, in principle, have to retrieve all headers in the group.
> Which would be slow.

However, it shouldn't be too slow in a nnml group, which is where I
usually am wanting this option anyway.  In this case it is a simple
scan down the .overview file, doing a date comparason at each entry.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@schenley.com)