From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41429 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: large .overview files in agentized nntp groups Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:34:28 +0100 Organization: Denizens of Doom, Norway Chapter Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <871yh8emp7.fsf@bang.priv.no> References: <87r8p9es7w.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176825 6074 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:07:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:07:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26109 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2002 16:36:18 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 2 Jan 2002 16:36:18 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16LoMN-0004On-00; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:35:23 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:35:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA23878 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:35:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26081 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2002 16:35:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26076 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2002 16:35:09 -0000 Original-Received: from c96s55h3.upc.chello.no (HELO biaggi) (213.46.211.96) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Jan 2002 16:35:09 -0000 Original-Received: from sb by biaggi with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16LoLz-0005q5-00; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:34:59 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2002 01:16:22 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/20.7 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 13 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41429 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41429 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > Steinar Bang writes: >> Is there a recommended way to do this kind of housecleaning? >> Manually deleting files in the hierarchies maintained by Gnus feels >> like a hack. > Doesn't `gnus-agent-expire' delete stuff from the NOV files? I tried running that command just before deleting the NOV file, but it didn't change the size of the NOV file, so I guess the answer is "no". :-)