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))