Re: Lamer walk thru downloads hundreds of old messages

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>:

> So, I guess there is not a command that will mark threads for download
> in some kind of en-masse fashion?

Unfortunately not, AFAIK... it would be nice of there was one.

Another thing I would have liked to have is the ability to return to the
search results after A T and tick in the Summary (perhaps with the
ticked articles removed from the search results...?)

> Do you mean there is a way to do A T en-masse, just process mark? Or
> are you talking about doing all the A T by hand?

The latter, unfortunately.  If you wants 200 articles by one author in
different threads, I can see that it would be quite a chore.

> In your scheme would the mesgs then be downloaded or do you mean to
> just leave them online?

I have a setup where reading the articles downloads them into the
agent.  It's an oooold setting, but seems to still be working.  That is:
working a bit flaky, like the rest of the agent (I have some threads on
this with debug results posted to gmane.emacs.gnus.general).