* gnus.el (gnus-maximum-newsgroup): New variable.

[gnus] / lisp / gnus.el

diff --git a/lisp/gnus.el b/lisp/gnus.el
index c5038b7..211a22b 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus.el
@@ -1515,6 +1515,17 @@ If it is nil, no confirmation is required."
   :type '(choice (const :tag "No limit" nil)
                 integer))
 
+(defcustom gnus-maximum-newsgroup 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))
+
 (defcustom gnus-use-long-file-name (not (memq system-type '(usg-unix-v xenix)))
   "*Non-nil means that the default name of a file to save articles in is the group name.
 If it's nil, the directory form of the group name is used instead.