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Subject: Re: Question re alt.comp.os.linux
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 23:50:46 +0200
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On 8/19/19 11:10 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> Takes hours to delete a million files tree, and repopulate it again.
> Thunderbird loses track of the posts that have been read or not in the
> procedure.
> 

That's a bit over the top, isn't it?

You can configure leafnode (with regex) so that it only downloads the 
groups you're (likely to be) interested in.

Examples from my leafnode 2 config:

server = some.news.server
nodesc = 1
only_groups_pcre = (alt\.|comp\.|)os\.linux($|\.(mi|sl|ub|deb|sus|ha).*)


server = news.mozilla.org
nodesc = 1
only_groups_pcre = mozilla\.((dev\.apps|support)\.(th|fi)|general)