From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19952 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Graham Murray Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: crossposted mail articles not expired? Date: 18 Dec 1998 17:48:51 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158208 14218 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20095 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:51:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB04159; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:51:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:51:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA06050 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:51:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from barnowl.demon.co.uk (graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk [158.152.23.247]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20077 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:51:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from graham@localhost) by barnowl.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21228; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:49:25 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: soma@cs.unm.edu's message of "18 Dec 1998 09:52:31 -0700" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070068 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.68) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19952 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19952 soma@cs.unm.edu (Anil B. Somayaji) writes: > Perhaps it should be an option, but it would be nice if gnus > automatically expired all copies of an article. Or, maybe when you > manually mark an article for expiration (which is all I do - I'm a > pack rat), there would be a command for "mark to expire this article > and all of its crosspostings." And, if this is not done, maybe the > bogus Xref should be removed. Or even better, IMHO, would be if crossposted mail were treated in the same way as news servers handle expiring crossposted news. That is, the article is not removed until it has expired in *all* the groups. (Though I do use total-expire in most mail groups, so articles do not need manual expiry). On the other hand B del should remove the article immediately in all crossposted groups.