Re: gnus fetching headers for ages

[.Martin.]

xtd8865@gmail.com (.Martin.) writes:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:46:39 +0000 xtd8865@gmail.com (.Martin.) wrote: 
>>
>> M> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>>> I personally never need to see all the messages in a newsgroup.  This is
>>>> usually thousands of messages (depending on the server retention) and
>>>> I'm not going to even see 99% of them.
>>
>> M> I know it's hardly probable that I'll need it. I'm talking more about
>> M> a situation when I want to access particular messages posted a few
>> M> days ago (but there were no new posts in that particular thread so
>> M> the thread won't be visible so I'll have to browse for it) Or is
>> M> there a better way of accomplishing it?
>>
>> I just do `C-u 1000 RET' to see the last 1000 messages; this is a habit
>> by now so I don't even notice when I do it.  Or I mark the thread
>> messages I want so they will always show up (you can gather all the
>> messages in a thread based on a single message with `A T').
>>
>> Ted
>
> Thanks for your help, Ted. How would I mark the thread messages so tay
> will always show up? I can gather all messages from a threas as you
> suggested ('A T') but then what am I supposed to do? The only mark
> options I can see are 'Mark thread as read' and 'Mark thread as
> expired'.
>
> thank you

Thanks guys - that's what I needed.
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regards
Martin