From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41625 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Score variable gnus-update-score-entry-dates Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:20:32 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen 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 1035176992 7176 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 6347 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 16:21:39 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 16:21:39 -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 16MtZX-0002sC-00; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:21:27 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:21:21 -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 KAA14221 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:21:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 6341 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2002 16:21:09 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6336 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 16:21:09 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 16:21:09 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16Mta7-0006q4-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:22:03 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1010247723 26014 195.204.10.148 (5 Jan 2002 16:22:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jan 2002 16:22:03 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: 310's _Downtown & Brooklyn Only (1)_: "Urban Mantras" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Copyleft, i386-debian-linux) X-Face: |J writes: > How is this variable used? It really isn't clear in the > manual what gets matched or how. I see no example. The customization page > provides no clues either. > > `gnus-update-score-entry-dates' > If this variable is non-`nil', matching score entries will have > their dates updated. (This is how Gnus controls expiry--all > non-matching entries will become too old while matching entries > will stay fresh and young.) However, if you set this variable to > `nil', even matching entries will grow old and will have to face > that oh-so grim reaper. > > Is this applicable only to scores defined as `temporary'. This really > needs some elaboration in the manual, I think. Probably; yes. But I'm not quite sure how to elaborate -- only temporary score entries are, er, temparorary. The permanent ones are, like, permanent. :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen