-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Francis Moreau <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sep 6, 2:32 pm, Richard Riley <[email protected]> wrote: >> Merciadri Luca <[email protected]> writes: >> > Hello, >> >> > When fetching threads of a given Usenet group, Gnus *always* asks me >> > how many articles I want to fetch. I think that it is unuseful, as I >> > have some groups where I want to dowload (the last) 2000 threads, and, on >> > another thread, I want only the 5 (last) threads. >> >> > How can I manage to make Gnus keeping trace of how much threads I want >> > to fetch in a given Usenet group? If it is impossible to make this >> > number varying, depending upon the group, how can I configure Gnus so >> > it always fetch x threads without asking me how much? >> > If it is still impossible, how can I ask Gnus to use a default value >> > about the numbers of threads which need to be downloaded, whatever the >> > group? >> >> > Thanks. >> > >> You could start by looking up >> >> gnus-large-newsgroup >> > > Well, this is not exactly what the OP wants AFAIK. You are right. > > Setting gnus-large-newsgroup to 2000 (for example) just means that if > the a news group has less than 2000 articles then gnus won't prompt > the user otherwise it will. Ok. I didn't know that. > > But the question is rather (as I understand it): is it possible to > make gnus _always_ fetch 2000 articles at most whatever the number of > article avalaible on the server side? That is if there're 100 articles > then fetch 100 articles, but if there're 4034 articles then just fetch > the 2000 last ones. For sure. That is my question. > > What I'm looking for is a way to teach gnus to always fetch a fixed > number of articles for a specific group without prompting. That could > be a dynamic value such as 10% of the total number of articles for > this group and if this value is more than a limit then just fetch this > limit. I'm looking for it too. If you find any way to implement it, please help. > Thanks Thanks too. I *do* think that there exists a solution to make this practically possible. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAkqv1GYACgkQM0LLzLt8MhxTsgCggYGEA53PQfHdDPuNydtnulBA GK4An37Z1+LvwSHyqhAEadrwIkEjZqTW =Q9r1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
