Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: fixnews (1/1) Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 17:54:52 GMT References: <1991Mar8.224324.7978@aero.org> <1991Mar09.003736.5242@convex.com> Sender: danj1@cbnewse.att.com (Dan Jacobson) Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 9 Mar 91 00:37:36 GMT >>>>> On 9 Mar 91 00:37:36 GMT, tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) said: From the keyboard of srt@aerospace.aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner): :This is a little hack I threw together to run through my .newsrc and :make sure I have no more than 50 articles to read in each newsgroup. :This allows me to dabble in heavily trafficked newsgroups without :going through contortions in rn. Tom> Use trn. GNUS (see newsgroup gnu.emacs.gnus) might help here too. From the manual: If the number of articles being selected is larger than the variable `gnus-large-newsgroup', the number of articles actually selected is asked for. If the given value N is positive, the last N articles will be selected. If N is negative, the first N articles will be selected. An empty string means to select all articles. ----- On a different topic, it would be neat if someone could compare all the new newsreaders. -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708 979 6364