Re: Confused about crosspost marking behavior.

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> I also haven't yet seen a situation where I thought it made more
> sense to use auto-expire than total-expire.

The only reason was that I was hung up on being able to use the read
mark for something other than killing articles.  I wanted read
articles to stick around as "archive" material, but I think I can just
adjust my thinking and become happy with just ticked and dormant.

Actually, given one fairly minor enhancement, I don't think I'd need
auto-expire *or* total-expire.  If I just had the
gnus-summary-mark-same-subject where you could provide the mark for it
to use, I'd be happy.  I don't really want auto-expire since I don't
want all read marks to turn to expires, I just need a more
powerful/flexible way to assign expire marks when called for.

I wonder if this would be hard; and I wonder if Lars would have any
interest in a patch for this...

If I do decide to switch to total-expire, then all I have to do is
figure out the easiest way to go through an ungodly number of groups
and mark all the read articles as dormant before I make the switch.

Thanks for response.

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