Gnus Marks
For marks in the summary buffer, see Section 3.7.2 in Gnus manual
u will mark ticked
Shift-3 will set the process mark on an article
M-u or d will unmark ticked
M P R will set process marks according to a regular expression.
gnus-summary-execute-command can run a random command on articles whose headers match regular expressions. If you use the Shift-3 command, you can mark articles with the "#" based on regular expressions in any header (or the whole body if you want)