From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3791 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Steven L. Baur" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Expiration in mail groups & unwanted features Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:26:55 -0800 Message-ID: <199511011726.JAA00487@miranova.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144624 27298 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:10:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:10:24 +0000 (UTC) X-From-Line: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Wed Nov 1 11:45:11 1995 Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA01434 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:45:05 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 18:29:58 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA00487; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:26:55 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ Original-Lines: 25 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3791 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3791 Marking an article as expirable will cause deletion upon exit from the *Summary* buffer if the article is more than a week old (assuming default expiration). Groups that are indicated to be auto expirable, will have expiration run irrespective of explicit expiration marks. This can either be done via the group parameters, or via gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups. (I haven't found a use I trust for this feature yet). I'd also like to see an option to make groups unexpirable, so that even if articles happen to be marked for expiration, if the group is unexpirable the mark will be ignored (or signal an error when the mark is applied). The lack of such an option could cause massive loss of archived mail without the usual prompt one gets via B DEL. As is the case with Gnus automatically snarfing mail from the system spool, this option would be nice to run Gnus in paranoid ``I don't trust Gnus'' mode, until trust is earned ... An immediate non-mail use would be mail groups of saved News articles. I don't want an automatic expire run ever on such a group, as the whole point of such groups is to keep the articles around until I have to remove them due to disk crunch concerns ... -- steve@miranova.com baur