[mew-int 01204] Re: new newsgroup 'catchup'

[Jonathan Meeks]

It works for some newsgroups but not others.  For gnu.g++.help it
works fine.  For comp.lang.java and comp.lang.c++ it does not.  For
these groups Mew always wants to retrieve all of the messages (many
thousands of messages), even when I do an "update" after a
"last:<num>". The only difference I can determine between the group
that works and those that do not is the number of posts waiting --
gnu.g++.help only had a few hundred unread messages. 

From: Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com>
Subject: Re: [mew-int 01177] 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
> 
> 
>