From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68586 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: auto auto-expirable Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:47:50 +0000 Organization: Message-ID: References: <30336.1243827407@rawbw.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243866425 26094 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2009 14:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:27:05 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17017@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jun 01 16:27:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MB8TY-0003Kn-N0 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:26:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MB8T2-0001mI-Bf; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:26:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MB6vz-0001NK-CI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MB6vt-0003ts-DP for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MB6wN-0002L8-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:48:35 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MB6vq-0000TS-7r for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: from e177144141.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.177.144.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: from tim by e177144141.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:48:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e177144141.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+ISQ4u7n4uyjUbyEUIRZax5uBRo= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68586 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: >>> Sometimes the scripts assign a message to the wrong folder. Currently, >>> I just save the message to the correct folder and then deal with it >>> while reading that other folder. >>> Now, if I understand your proposal, it sounds like I would need to >>> remember to clear the "expirable" mark before saving the message. If >>> that's correct, it seems awkward and easy to forget to do. >> When I face such situations, I usually move the article to the correct >> group *before* reading it, so Katsumi's change would not affect you. In >> the cases when the article is displayed for whatever reason, I also >> usually M c it (before reading it), move it, and again read it from the >> correct group. > I'll do it like Didier, but I can agree with Mike. Maybe it > will be better not to change the present behavior by default. > [...] I *think* I do it like Didier, but I don't know if I don't do it sometimes like Mike :-). With the danger of losing mail, I'd prefer a "Are you really sure?" dialog, perhaps similar to scroll-left & Co. if technically possible. In the end, moving a mail only to have it expired seems not a very common thing to do. Tim