From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78818 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Removing the expirable mark Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 22:18:13 -0400 Message-ID: <87fwoi10uy.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <87hb8y2z9e.fsf@uwo.ca> <87iptetl7r.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305339554 20175 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2011 02:19:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 02:19:14 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27118@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 14 04:19:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QL4Rh-0007xj-B1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 04:19:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QL4R5-0004Ab-Kw; Fri, 13 May 2011 21:18:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QL4R4-0004AQ-Hc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 13 May 2011 21:18:30 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QL4R3-00073B-3X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 13 May 2011 21:18:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QL4R0-0003Kh-6T for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 04:18:26 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QL4Qz-0007gV-Ng for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 04:18:25 +0200 Original-Received: from bas2-london14-1177569382.dsl.bell.ca ([70.48.72.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 04:18:25 +0200 Original-Received: from jdc by bas2-london14-1177569382.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 04:18:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas2-london14-1177569382.dsl.bell.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.110012 (No Gnus v0.12) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oTgFbl/gYeLYQVvFDy5tLuSGGOw= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78818 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Fri, 13 May 2011 15:09:49 -0400 Dan Christensen wrote: > > DC> This doesn't answer your question, but I also find that because of my > DC> habit of using expiry in mail groups, I often accidentally mark articles > DC> as expirable in nntp groups as well, which doesn't make sense. Maybe > DC> Gnus should automatically convert expirable marks to read marks in nntp > DC> groups (and other groups which don't allow article deletion)? My > DC> .newsrc.eld gets really cluttered because of my misbehaving fingers. > > I think Gnus does that when the marks are actually saved. Not for me. Here's a snippet from my .newsrc.eld: ("nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.linux.ubuntu.news" 3 ((1 . 313)) ((seen (1 . 313)) (forward 160 188) (expire 175 (186 . 188) 191 197 207 (273 . 275) 308)) Dan