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Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu> writes:

> As reported by Adrian Kubala, B DEL in the summary buffer expires
> articles but does not respect the expiry-target group parameter.  The
> following patch attempts to fix this issue.
>
> 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?

If you want expiry-target to be adheared, you should expire the
article, not delete it.

Perhaps this isn't a intuitive default behaviour, I'm not sure since I
don't use expiry-target.