From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30838 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How does duplicate suppression work? Date: 11 May 2000 18:45:44 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <878zxgodlj.fsf@raven.localnet> References: <200004212130.XAA03666@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167319 10615 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:28:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AAB2D0520 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 19:46:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB02200; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:46:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 11 May 2000 18:45:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA28841 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:45:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail11.jump.net (mail11.jump.net [207.8.124.20]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AF1D0520 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 19:45:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cust-53-56.customer.jump.net (cust-35-56.customer.jump.net [216.30.73.56]) by mail11.jump.net (8.9.0/) with ESMTP id SAA10094 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:45:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from raven.localnet (raven.localnet [192.168.1.7]) by cust-53-56.customer.jump.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C187278E9 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:45:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.localnet (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 345CDAEA7; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:45:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "22 Apr 2000 14:08:09 +0200" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) Emacs/20.6 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30838 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30838 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >=20 > > > > I turned on duplicate suppression (by setting gnus-suppress-dup= licates > > > > to true), and now I see an article marked with M every now and = then. > > > > The documentation says that the articles are marked as read, wh= ich is > > > > fine for newsgroups, but what about mail groups? I think I wan= t the > > > > dupes to be marked as expirable, not as read. > > >=20 > > > There is no pre-defined functionality in Gnus for doing this. > >=20 > > Well, err, is there an entry in the Newest Features list, now? A > > generic mechanism would be sufficient, I guess :-) >=20 > I don't think this would be all that useful, so I'm not going to write > it. :-) (I know this is old, but...) Are you saying that it's not useful for duplicate supression to be able to mark articles as 'E' for people not using total-expire? If so, then why? --=20 Rob Browning PGP=3DE80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930