There are ways to force trn to do something like this, but you might not
need this as much as you think.

When new articles arrive trn automatically selects the ones that show
up in the threads that you selected this session, so if the articles
show up and they aren't selected you either already rejected them
or they will be listed at the end of the selector in date order.
Press '$' to get to the last page if you aren't already there.

If you still have that urge to see the newly-arrived articles, there are
a couple things you can do in trn 3.6 to facilitate this:

Press '=' to switch into the article selector, press "ON" to switch
the order to reverse numeric and look at the subjects it lists for
the first x articles.

Alternately, if 5 new articles have arrived, type 'c' (catchup) 5
to mark all but the last 5 articles as read.  What's left in the
selector will be the new articles.

If you don't have 3.6, you have to do some math and use the article
mode.  Type '+' to get out of the selector (if you're in it) and press
'#' to see the last article number.  If the output is 10762 and there
are 5 new articles you'd type "10758-10762 +" to select all the
newly-arrived articles and then either read them or press '+' to get
back into the selector and 'E' to see only the selected subjects.  Yuck.

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