fixnews (1/1)

[Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM]

>>>>> On 9 Mar 91 00:37:36 GMT, tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) said:

>From the keyboard of srt at 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.

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On a different topic,
it would be neat if someone could compare all the new newsreaders.
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