Re: Finding all posts in a date range

Re: Finding all posts in a date range

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Dec 04 2003, Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:

> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
[...]
>> `/ t 3 / t -11' gives all articles older than 3 days and younger than
>> 11 days.
>
> But that only works if you first bring at least 11 days worth of
> messages into the summary buffer first with something like (C-u 5000
> SPC).  

Sure; I forgot to mention this.

> I don't know of a way to do the equivalent of that limiting command
> from the group buffer, so that you only bring into the summary
> buffer the 3-11 day old messages.  I'd love to be shown how I'm
> wrong, though!

I'm afraid that this won't be possible.  You can specify which article
*numbers* you want to see, but not which *dates*.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Finding all posts in a date range

[Jesper Harder]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 04 2003, Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:
>
>> I don't know of a way to do the equivalent of that limiting command
>> from the group buffer, so that you only bring into the summary
>> buffer the 3-11 day old messages.  I'd love to be shown how I'm
>> wrong, though!
>
> I'm afraid that this won't be possible.  You can specify which article
> *numbers* you want to see, but not which *dates*.

,----[ RFC 977, Section 3.8.1
|
|    NEWNEWS newsgroups date time [GMT] [<distribution>]
| 
|    A list of message-ids of articles posted or received to the specified
|    newsgroup since "date" will be listed.
`----

Gnus doesn't support NEWNEWS, though.

Re: Finding all posts in a date range

[Frank Schmitt]

Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com writes:

> But that only works if you first bring at least 11 days worth of messages into
> the summary buffer first with something like (C-u 5000 SPC).  5000 may be a
> bit of an exageration, but depending on how much spam filtering you're doing,
> it may not be.  Loading those 5000 messages prior to limiting, can be quite
> slow.
>
> I don't know of a way to do the equivalent of that limiting command from the
> group buffer, so that you only bring into the summary buffer the 3-11 day old
> messages.  I'd love to be shown how I'm wrong, though!

I don't think that this is possible. How should Gnus know which
messages are in your date range, when it hasn't downloaded the headers
yet?

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