[mew-int 01178] Re: new newsgroup 'catchup'

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

From: Jonathan Meeks <lists at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 01177] new newsgroup 'catchup'

> Whenever I join a new newsgroup, my initial 'update' of the group
> fetches all messages (sometimes thousands).  Afterwards, the update
> gets only new messages.  Is there a way to catchup a newsgroup so that
> my initial updates don't download all stored messages for that
> newsgroup.  I realize that 'last:<num>' will get the last num
> messages, but I would like to retrieve all messages since the last one
> I read.

I don't understand what you want to do exactly.

But how about typing "last:<num>" ONLY when your initial time and
typing "update" after that?

--Kazu