Re: set fixed amount of articles to read

Troy Piggins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[top posting fixed]
* Joseph Le-Phan <[email protected]> :
> Thus spake Klaus Alexander Seistrup ([email protected]):
> > Joseph Le-Phan wrote:
> >
> >> Is it possible to specify how many articles are to be read when
> >> entering a group? Atm, the number is set at however many articles
> >> are in a group, but I'd like to change this to a smaller value.
> >
> > Is it the query_read_group_cutoff variable you're looking for?
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> Hi, Klaus,
> 
>      Atm, my .slrnrc has:
> 
> > set query_read_group_cutoff 100
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm still prompted to view the largest possible view of
> the spool.

Try:

set query_read_group_cutoff -100

> I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I'd like to use
> this feature for already-read articles (where some groups' archives can
> span 100000 articles)

If they're marked as read, they shouldn't download the next time,
should they?

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Troy Piggins
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