From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32153 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: expiry-target Date: 13 Aug 2000 18:16:57 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <64itt4eo42.fsf@a11375-rw.asc.corp.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168470 18105 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:47:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rod Whitby Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81700D051E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:35:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAC12124; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:34:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:32:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA11423 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:32:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DD40ED051E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:33:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 14567 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2000 02:33:07 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-116-86.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.116.86) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 14 Aug 2000 02:33:07 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00943; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:39:45 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.ptw.com: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Rod Whitby's message of "14 Aug 2000 08:59:49 +0930" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.5 Original-Lines: 48 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32153 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32153 Rod Whitby writes: > Harry Putnam 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. [...] > > 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