From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make gnus-summary-delete-article respect group parameters
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:18:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluk7o5avk5.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3it3p6oae.fsf@fermat.mts.jhu.edu> (Nevin Kapur's message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:09:29 -0400")
Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:
>>> I would also like to argue that B DEL performing expiry instead of
>>> deletion is inconsistent with its name and its description in the
>>> manual.
>>
>> Yes, which is why B DEL doesn't respect expiry-target, no?
>
> But it respects nnmail-expiry-target.
Right. I committed your patch. The question if B DEL should respect
expiry-target or not is orthogonal to this.
> For me the best outcome would be if B DEL outright deleted the
> article. But this may break somebody else's setup who has relied on B
> DEL to expire articles. For them the patch is useful.
Yup. I also like B DEL to really delete the article, but I don't
think it is important enough to modify existing behaviour. Let's wait
for someone to report it as a bug, and then we can discuss it. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-09 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-09 12:32 Nevin Kapur
2002-07-09 12:56 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-07-09 13:09 ` Nevin Kapur
2002-07-09 13:18 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-07-11 11:36 ` Steve Youngs
2002-07-26 12:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-07-26 15:10 ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-07-26 16:34 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-08-02 10:51 ` Steve Youngs
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