From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39227 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Piers Cawley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Thoughts on expiry Date: 10 Oct 2001 12:31:16 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174967 26780 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:36:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 18760 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2001 11:34:51 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 10 Oct 2001 11:34:51 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15rHbB-000627-00; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:32:29 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:32:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA00033 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:31:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 18717 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2001 11:32:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18712 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2001 11:32:14 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO mail.hybyte.com) (217.89.91.12) by gnus.org with SMTP; 10 Oct 2001 11:32:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19580 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2001 11:31:51 -0000 Original-Received: from pdcawley@bofh.org.uk by mail.hybyte.com with qmail-scanner-0.96 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4164. . Clean. Processed in 1.646656 secs); 10 Oct 2001 11:31:51 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO despairon.bofh.org.uk) (213.123.176.146) by 0 with SMTP; 10 Oct 2001 11:31:49 -0000 Original-Received: from pdcawley by despairon.bofh.org.uk with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15rHa0-000543-00; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:31:16 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39227 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39227 There's an off line reader I use on another service which has a very useful expiry metric, based on threads. The idea is that, if the most recent article in a thread with no unread articles is older than the specified age, that entire thread gets expired/moved to an archive/whatever. I find this particular behaviour startlingly useful. Does anyone know if there's been work done in this area with Gnus? I can't find anything referring to it in the docs, but I don't want to go reinventing the wheel if I can possibly help it (although wheel reinvention can be a fun learning experience...) -- Piers