Re: saving downloaded posts

[Abhijit Rao <quasiabhi@yahoo.com>]

On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 22:02:51 -0500, David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>
wrote:

>calmar <mac@calmar.ws> writes:
>> When I have there subcribed a group, and when I click on it with the
>> middle button from my mouse in order to see the group,
>> gnus is asking me about :
>> How many articles from comp.emacs.xemacs (default 1151)   (p.e.)
>>
>> So I download all these Messeges/Headers, and everything works fine so
>> far.
>> When I exit gnus or xemacs, and start gnus again, it askes me the same
>> question again. (which takes lot of time again until it's finished)
>> I guess it should store the messages anywhere, isn'it? and only
>> download new ones?
>
>It keeps track of which messages you've read, and offers you the
>opportunity to read messages you haven't yet.  This means that you
>need to explicitly 'read' every article.  'd' from the summary buffer
>will mark an article as read; 'C-k' will kill an article or thread
>(down-scoring it if you're using adaptive scoring); 'c' will mark all
>articles in the current group as read.

I am facing the same problem (even worse because I have a 2kb/sec
link).  I would like gnus to download all new messages to disk for
future reading/reference.  But I have not, yet, got gnus to do this...
Any pointer will be very welcome.

Thanks,


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