Variable: gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles

gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles is a customizable variable defined in gnus-sum.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

The maximum number of articles a newsgroup.

If this is a number, old articles in a newsgroup exceeding this number are silently ignored. If it is nil, no article is ignored. Note that setting this variable to a number might prevent you from reading very old articles.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 22.2.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el.gz
(defcustom gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles nil
  "The maximum number of articles a newsgroup.
If this is a number, old articles in a newsgroup exceeding this number
are silently ignored.  If it is nil, no article is ignored.  Note that
setting this variable to a number might prevent you from reading very
old articles."
  :group 'gnus-group-select
  :version "22.2"
  :type '(choice (const :tag "No limit" nil)
		 integer))