From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14654 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike McEwan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: `gnus-agent-expire' - specifics? Date: 18 Mar 1998 21:42:37 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153811 17456 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:43:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12232 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:03:38 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01474 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:58:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAN28520; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:33:25 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:57:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12687 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:57:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 14586 invoked by uid 504); 18 Mar 1998 22:57:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14583 invoked from network); 18 Mar 1998 22:57:17 -0000 Original-Received: from post-20.mail.demon.net (HELO post.mail.demon.net) (194.217.242.27) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 1998 22:57:16 -0000 Original-Received: from lotusland.demon.co.uk ([158.152.62.156]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa2018063; 18 Mar 98 21:56 GMT Original-Received: from mike by lotusland.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0yFQoc-0000D3-00; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:56:02 +0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.2/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Original-Lines: 21 MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at post.mail.demon.net Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14654 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14654 Well I've been using `gnus-agent-expire' and it seems to work fine, for articles that have been downloaded and have a corresponding entry in the agent `history' file. My question is, what is supposed to happen to the NOV lines of articles that have *not* been downloaded? I have written an agent download predicate function, via which I can limit the number of articles downloaded to those not older than a certain number of days. Useful, I find, when subscribing to large newsgroups for the first time. However, as the headers for *all* articles are downloaded regardless, I'm finding that the NOV lines of never downloaded articles remains in my .overview files. This presumably means that gnus takes longer than it needs to parse such files? When, if ever, do such NOV lines get nuked? -- Mike.