From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41166 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Piers Cawley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Thoughts on expiry Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 07:31:46 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176604 4691 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:03:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 19362 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2001 07:56:03 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 30 Dec 2001 07:56:03 -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 16Kaot-0005eI-00; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:55:47 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:55:37 -0600 (CST) 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 BAA02118 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:55:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 19352 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2001 07:55:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19348 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2001 07:55:26 -0000 Original-Received: from plough.barnyard.co.uk (195.149.50.61) by gnus.org with SMTP; 30 Dec 2001 07:55:26 -0000 Original-Received: from pdcawley by plough.barnyard.co.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 16Kanp-00089e-00; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 07:54:51 +0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:44:38 +0100") Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41166 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41166 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Piers Cawley writes: > >> 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. > > So entire threads get handled as a single entity, instead of handling > each message separately? That would be useful; yes. You would always > be able to refer back to the older messages in a thread as long as > there were new messages arriving in that thread. Indeed. It's how an offline reader for an online service that I use works and it's great. > However, that goes against the grain of Gnus expiration. The > expiration process handles one message at a time, and has no concept > of threading at that stage. So I think this would be quite difficult > to implement. I know. I've had a look at implementing it and it makes my head hurt. -- Piers "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite." -- Jane Austen?