From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-del-mark vs gnus-expirable-mark
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:56:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nekwt8hww.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76k76m1ey2.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> (Jake Colman's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:30:29 -0500")
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, colman@ppllc.com wrote:
> If I mark a message using 'd', I get the gnus-del-mark. When/how do
> those messages actually get deleted? How does this differ from
> gnus-expirable-mark where the message gets deleted after the
> expiration time? Aren't they effectively the same?
Think of the deleted mark as deleting the article from the summary
view - more like a "this has been read" mark. I think that because
Gnus is somewhat newsreader-oriented, deletions are not quite as
deadly as they are on mail-oriented MUAs. On a news server, you can't
actually delete an article (normally).
The delete/expire metaphor works nicely for IMAP, because there you
also have a distinction between "has been read" and "to be deleted"
marks on articles.
Ted
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