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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> * Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>  on Fri, 25 Jun 1999
> | Just my own habits, but I find myself wanting to keep more than half
> | of my mail so ticking would be more time consuming than marking the
> | ones I don't  want with "E".
> 
> You are obviously not on moderate to high volume mailing lists :).

Maybe not, but Redhat lists, or "ding" for that matter, are not
considered "quiet" by most.
> 
> Of course, if you unmark all your ticked/dormant articles then catch up,
> those articles are ripe for expiry.  About all I can say to that is, "don't 
> do that."  Maybe you have a good reason for it, but I generally do not see
> the rational behind unmarking an entire group.

You must have noticed at one time or another that M-c is rather close
to M-x.

> Then again, rsync is my friend.  It should be your's, too.

I did recently start tinkering with rsync, and just in the last few
day have written and implemented an elementary backup script using
"tar" for $HOME and /etc., so may get a little braver with total expire.