Harry Putnam <[email protected]> writes:

> Setup: Debian (jesse)
> Running very recent ma-gnus 
>
> Can anyone tell me how to force gnus to download specific msgs in
> large quantitly (meaning several thousand)
>
> I used to use the agent very heavily for some yrs but for last several
> yrs since gmane holds msgs so long I faded away from that practice.
>
> Now forgotten just about all I ever new... plus some of it has changes
> possibly. 
>
> I need a quick and dirty way since this will be a seldom done thing to
> download specific authors from specific groups.
>
> Selecting that part en-masse is not a problem... I know how to do
> that.  But had the notion I could put the download (toggle) mark on
> them (%) on them and they would get downloaded.... 
>
> Can anyone explain in as few steps as necessary how I might do this?
>
> Imagine, I open a group.... select 10 (though it will be many more)
> and somehow force gnus to download them...

With Agent try 

Mark as downloadable  J#
Fetch downloadable    Ju
or
Catchup undownloaded  Jc

Hope this helps.
Ray

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