Re: expiry-target

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Rod Whitby <list.ding@rwhitby.net> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> > I only have nnml groups but haven't been able to get this working.
> > 
> > Can you supply an example of the necessary var settings and the code
> > that would be appropriate in group params.  Maybe even replete with
> > some of the good Lars humor.

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> 
> And I've twice now supplied the patches which makes it work.  Are my
> messages getting through to the list, or are they going into a black
> hole somewhere ?  Harry or Lars, can you please reply to me personally
> if you see this message on the list.  I've CC'd Lars just in case
> there is something which is stopping my messages getting to the list.
 
[...]

Rob,
Sorry to have steadfastly ignored your patches.  My reasons were, that
I have very little experience using patches, the few times I have it
has been directly from a gnus article buffer to the appropriate el
files, via the `O p' command (save to a pipe) piping to patch.

In this case patch tells me it sees only garbage in the patch.
Probably something I'm doing wrong.

Secondly in your several posts on this, including patches, you have
steadfastly refused to supply an example of how this works or what it
looks like.  Being a lisp illiterate, I need to see examples to see
how it is supposed to work.

So on the strenghth of your most recent post.  I saved your patch to
file (expiry-patch.diff)  put it in pgnus/lisp and called 
`patch <expiry-patch.diff'  The patch went in smoothly and reported:

   /usr/local/pgnus/lisp $ patch <expiry-patch.diff
   patching file `gnus-sum.el'
   Hunk #1 succeeded at 7683 (offset 1 line).
   patching file `nnml.el'
   patching file `nnmail.el'

Now what?