a strategy for reading newsgroups

[prad]

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?

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