From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14442 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: a strategy for reading newsgroups Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:45:35 -0800 Message-ID: <87pqsla7wg.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293572724 13970 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2010 21:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:45:24 +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 Dec 28 22:45:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXhM4-00015N-8J for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:45:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47040 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PXhM3-0005eW-M4 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:45:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42125 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PXhLo-0005Yp-6g for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:45:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PXhLc-0006xI-O7 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44526) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PXhLc-0006x4-Ia for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:44:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXhLZ-0000tk-Qe for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:44:45 +0100 Original-Received: from 70.67.160.177 ([70.67.160.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:44:45 +0100 Original-Received: from prad by 70.67.160.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:44:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.67.160.177 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TVx8yLTIM3Nz1LQqIZ3N182oNjU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14442 Archived-At: do people have efficient strategies for handling newsgroups? are there any links that pertain specifically to gnus? here is one issue for instance that is bothering me and haven't found a solution for in the excellent and humorously written manual, yet. when i go into a newsgroup there may be 9999 posts. they are all unread and i'm asked how many do i want to download. so i say 99 and read a few and may be reply to a few or post some of my own. now i go back to the group and it would be nice to see new replies to my efforts or the threads i was involved in. however, i'm asked how many do i want to download and i see the new items again some of which are of course the ones i'm interested in. i suppose the marking and prioritizing threads can assist here, but i'm also thinking that if i could mark an entire group as read, then i'd only get new posts when i go in, so that's a lot less to sift through. (i can mark a group with #, but haven't figured out how to mark everything within it as being read). possibly, this may not be a good idea either or there may be more intelligent ways of doing things. is there some sort of gnus for dummies that is available? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's