From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: backend question: how to detect new articles
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:29:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4n1y00eulm.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34r4wsxr6.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, prj@po.cwru.edu wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>> How can I tell what articles are new when entering any group? I
>> think this can be done with the newsrc-alist, but I'm not sure how.
>
> What does "new" mean? Lacking the 'seen mark? Having the 'recent
> mark? If it means something like "added to the group since the last
> time you checked for \"new\" articles", then I think there's no
> built-in way to discover that; you'd have to maintain a duplicate
> article list and compare it to the current list yourself.
Oh, I see what you mean. The goal is to mark unseen messages as spam,
so the 'seen mark will do nicely - I'll use the gnus-newsgroup-unseen
list, which seems to be perfect for the job.
Thanks!
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-17 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-17 19:13 Ted Zlatanov
2003-04-17 19:56 ` Paul Jarc
2003-04-17 20:29 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2003-04-18 17:53 ` spam.el unssen/unread articles in spam groups behavior modification (was: backend question: how to detect new articles) Ted Zlatanov
2003-04-17 20:41 ` backend question: how to detect new articles Kai Großjohann
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