From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16816 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ray Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to force Ma gnus to download specific msgs en-masse Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:01:25 +0100 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Message-ID: <87ppksit9m.fsf@ray-higrade.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396929678 23738 80.91.229.3 (8 Apr 2014 04:01:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 04:01:18 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 06:01:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WXNDm-00006X-0E for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 06:01:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXNDl-0007xR-Ls for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:01:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.2.198.204 Original-X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1396915390 65739 82.2.198.204 (8 Apr 2014 00:03:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 00:03:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eb6M/CxMKj2Ju8MaQVHlsnf2keU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:87944 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:01:12 -0400 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16816 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > Setup: Debian (jesse) > Running very recent ma-gnus > > Can anyone tell me how to force gnus to download specific msgs in > large quantitly (meaning several thousand) > > I used to use the agent very heavily for some yrs but for last several > yrs since gmane holds msgs so long I faded away from that practice. > > Now forgotten just about all I ever new... plus some of it has changes > possibly. > > I need a quick and dirty way since this will be a seldom done thing to > download specific authors from specific groups. > > Selecting that part en-masse is not a problem... I know how to do > that. But had the notion I could put the download (toggle) mark on > them (%) on them and they would get downloaded.... > > Can anyone explain in as few steps as necessary how I might do this? > > Imagine, I open a group.... select 10 (though it will be many more) > and somehow force gnus to download them... With Agent try Mark as downloadable J# Fetch downloadable Ju or Catchup undownloaded Jc Hope this helps. Ray --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---