How does duplicate suppression work?

How does duplicate suppression work?

[Kai Großjohann]

I turned on duplicate suppression (by setting gnus-suppress-duplicates
to true), and now I see an article marked with M every now and then.
The documentation says that the articles are marked as read, which is
fine for newsgroups, but what about mail groups?  I think I want the
dupes to be marked as expirable, not as read.

kai
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Re: How does duplicate suppression work?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I turned on duplicate suppression (by setting gnus-suppress-duplicates
> to true), and now I see an article marked with M every now and then.
> The documentation says that the articles are marked as read, which is
> fine for newsgroups, but what about mail groups?  I think I want the
> dupes to be marked as expirable, not as read.

There is no pre-defined functionality in Gnus for doing this.

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Re: How does duplicate suppression work?

[Kai Großjohann]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > I turned on duplicate suppression (by setting gnus-suppress-duplicates
> > to true), and now I see an article marked with M every now and then.
> > The documentation says that the articles are marked as read, which is
> > fine for newsgroups, but what about mail groups?  I think I want the
> > dupes to be marked as expirable, not as read.
> 
> There is no pre-defined functionality in Gnus for doing this.

Well, err, is there an entry in the Newest Features list, now?  A
generic mechanism would be sufficient, I guess :-)

kai
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Re: How does duplicate suppression work?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> > > I turned on duplicate suppression (by setting gnus-suppress-duplicates
> > > to true), and now I see an article marked with M every now and then.
> > > The documentation says that the articles are marked as read, which is
> > > fine for newsgroups, but what about mail groups?  I think I want the
> > > dupes to be marked as expirable, not as read.
> > 
> > There is no pre-defined functionality in Gnus for doing this.
> 
> Well, err, is there an entry in the Newest Features list, now?  A
> generic mechanism would be sufficient, I guess :-)

I don't think this would be all that useful, so I'm not going to write
it.  :-)

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Re: How does duplicate suppression work?

[Rob Browning]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > > > I turned on duplicate suppression (by setting gnus-suppress-duplicates
> > > > to true), and now I see an article marked with M every now and then.
> > > > The documentation says that the articles are marked as read, which is
> > > > fine for newsgroups, but what about mail groups?  I think I want the
> > > > dupes to be marked as expirable, not as read.
> > > 
> > > There is no pre-defined functionality in Gnus for doing this.
> > 
> > Well, err, is there an entry in the Newest Features list, now?  A
> > generic mechanism would be sufficient, I guess :-)
> 
> I don't think this would be all that useful, so I'm not going to write
> it.  :-)

(I know this is old, but...)

Are you saying that it's not useful for duplicate supression to be
able to mark articles as 'E' for people not using total-expire?  If
so, then why?

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Re: How does duplicate suppression work?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> > > > > I turned on duplicate suppression (by setting gnus-suppress-duplicates
> > > > > to true), and now I see an article marked with M every now and then.
> > > > > The documentation says that the articles are marked as read, which is
> > > > > fine for newsgroups, but what about mail groups?  I think I want the
> > > > > dupes to be marked as expirable, not as read.
> > > > 
> > > > There is no pre-defined functionality in Gnus for doing this.
> > > 
> > > Well, err, is there an entry in the Newest Features list, now?  A
> > > generic mechanism would be sufficient, I guess :-)
> > 
> > I don't think this would be all that useful, so I'm not going to write
> > it.  :-)
> 
> (I know this is old, but...)
> 
> Are you saying that it's not useful for duplicate supression to be
> able to mark articles as 'E' for people not using total-expire?  If
> so, then why?

I have no idea what I meant by that.  This is clearly a bug.  Fixed in
CVS in a few minutes.

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