Re: Removing the expirable mark

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 13 May 2011 22:18:13 -0400 Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> wrote: 

DC> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Fri, 13 May 2011 15:09:49 -0400 Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> 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.

DC> Not for me.  Here's a snippet from my .newsrc.eld:

DC>     ("nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.linux.ubuntu.news" 3
DC>    ((1 . 313))
DC>    ((seen (1 . 313)) (forward 160 188) (expire 175 (186 . 188) 191 197 207 (273 . 275) 308))

So when synchronizing the marks in "news" backends, we should convert
expirable marks to read marks?

Is that OK?  Can you think of any reason not to do this?  It seems safe
to me.

Ted