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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Removing the expirable mark
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:11:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iptetl7r.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hb8y2z9e.fsf@uwo.ca>

On Fri, 13 May 2011 15:09:49 -0400 Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> wrote: 

DC> Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:
>> what is the proper way to remove the expirable mark in all articles from
>> a group (for several backends, including nnimap and nntp) ?

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.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-13 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11 13:29 Didier Verna
2011-05-11 21:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-13 19:09 ` Dan Christensen
2011-05-13 20:11   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-05-14  2:18     ` Dan Christensen
2011-05-16 18:39       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-18 15:23         ` Dan Christensen
2011-05-18 20:44           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-07 13:30             ` Dan Christensen
2011-09-10 19:56               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 23:23                 ` Dan Christensen
2011-09-12  4:24                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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