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From: trost@reed.bitnet (Bill Trost)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: Is anyone maintaining GNUS these days?
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Date: 10 Jan 90 19:48:28 GMT
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In his wishlist, tale@cs.rpi.edu writes:
>Retrieving articles from a newsgroup with GNUS, something in addition
>to gnus-large-newsgroup is needed.  ranges/specific article num would be nice.

Something I would like to see that would nicely *replace* the large
newsgroup stuff would be background acquisition of news articles.  I
imagine some loop somewhere (called after "n" and " " and "." and
other common news-reading keys) like

	     (while (not (input-pending-p))
	        (gnus-fetch-next-header))

I've started looking at the code, but it's much too complicated for me
to do anything like this in the near future.  David, how long do you
think it would take you to pull off something like this?