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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: Backing up expired mail?
Date: 22 Apr 1997 13:14:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kig3esjs40r.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 21 Apr 1997 02:35:24 +0200

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net> writes:
> 
> > I get the impression from the info pages that expired mail is deleted.
> > (Duh! ;-)  But I wonder, is it possible to move the expired mail into
> > a backup folder instead?
> 
> If you don't want to delete old mail, why do you want to move it?
> Can't you just keep it in the group?

Because after a time the group becomes too large to enter/browse
comfortably.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-04-22 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-04-19 14:23 Norman Walsh
1997-04-21  0:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-04-22  9:07   ` Norman Walsh
1997-04-24 12:01     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-04-24 17:00       ` Steinar Bang
1997-04-27  9:01         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-04-22 11:14   ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1997-04-22  2:16 ` Dewey M. Sasser
1997-04-24 12:01   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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