Re: GNUS: how to see all recent messages?

[Emanuel Berg]

Eric S Fraga wrote:

>> I've been only a gnus user quite recently but I think the
>> nnvirtual backends would work for that use case.
>
> I use virtual groups and they won't work for this use case.
> The retrieval of "old" articles does not retrieve from all
> groups involved + sort + select... which is what would
> be necessary.

I think it works! Try this ...

Create a newsgroup with `G V' or
`gnus-group-make-empty-virtual', then do
`gnus-group-edit-group-method' and type

(nnvirtual 
"^nntp\\+nntp\\.aioe\\.org:alt\\.os\\.linux$\\|^nntp\\+nntp\\.aioe\\.org:comp\\.text\\.tex$")

This combines alt.os.linux and comp.text.tex from the Usenet
server nntp.aioe.org using the protocol nntp.

Enter the group as you normally would and do
`gnus-summary-insert-old-articles'.

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