Re: gnus fetching headers for ages

[.Martin.]

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
-- 
regards
Martin