[mew-int 01179] Re: new newsgroup 'catchup'

[Vardhan Varma]

 mew is different from other news readers, in that it keeps a local
copy of all the messages. So, even a 'catchup' would imply getting
all the messages. 

 In my _humble_ opinion, mew's news handling is slight different 
from conventional news readers slrn/tin etc, someobody should write
a quickstart guide to using it efficently.



--Vardhan

From: Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 01178] Re: new newsgroup 'catchup'
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 14:44:17 +0900 (JST)

> 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
> 
>