Re: total and auto expiry

[Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@myxomop.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:25:32 +0100
>>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
KG> 
KG> Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@forexware.com> writes:
>> Does this mean that the only difference between actions that are taken
>> over groups matching 'total' and 'auto' it that the former will be
>> expired even if expiry-wait for it is 'never?
KG> 
KG> No.  I think setting expiry-wait to never means that nothing is
KG> expired.
KG> 
KG> Normally, you can mark a message as expirable by hitting `E'.
KG> 
KG> Auto-expire means that Gnus hits `E' for you.  Nothing more, nothing
KG> less.
KG> 
KG> Total-expire means that messages marked E are expirable, as always,
KG> but *also* messages marked r, R, Y, K and so on are considered
KG> expirable.

Thus the one difference is an article's mark. Its destiny, to be or
not to be expired, is the same, if group is matched with total or auto
variable.

This also means that "total" described as dangerous is not too much
more dangerous than "auto", isn't it?

KG> Adaptive scoring does not work with auto-expire because it depends on
KG> the different marks r, R, Y, K etc.  But using auto-expire means that
KG> messages will be marked E, instead.
KG> 
KG> It used to be that total-expire was slower than auto-expire.  I don't
KG> know whether this is still true.

So it can be advised to use total with adaptive scoring and auto
otherwise. At first approximation they are the same.

-- 
Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia