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From: suzy@tank.uchicago.edu (suzy marie mercer)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: List of subjects in an already read group
Keywords: do it by magic
Message-ID: <5565@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 89 15:46:31 GMT
References: <1802@draken.nada.kth.se> <14750@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Reply-To: suzy@tank.uchicago.edu (suzy marie mercer)
Organization: University of Chicago
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In article <14750@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
:In article <1802@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:
:>
:>  I require a quick method of peeking at subject lines of an already
:>  read group... 
:
:Try
:	g xxx	or	o xx	("o" is quicker if the string's unique)
:
:then within the group, 
:
:	?.?m
:	=
:
:-- 
:"We plan absentee ownership.  I'll stick to       `o'   Tom Neff
: building ships." -- George Steinbrenner, 1973    o"o   tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET


Uh, Tom, do you really want to suggest:

       ?.?m

That will get ALL archived read articles marked as unread. If your system
archives two weeks worth, you could be marking a thousand or so.
(I think the original poster wanted to mark about 100).

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