From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45800 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nevin Kapur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: B DEL is being treated as expiry? Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:23:48 -0400 Organization: Mathematical Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027459566 6535 127.0.0.1 (23 Jul 2002 21:26:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17X7AP-0001gi-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:26:01 +0200 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 17X78k-0005fz-00; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:24:18 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:24:43 -0500 (CDT) 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 QAA22352 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:24:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 13534 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2002 21:23:55 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13529 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2002 21:23:55 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by gnus.org with SMTP; 23 Jul 2002 21:23:55 -0000 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17X782-0001b9-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:23:34 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17X781-0001b1-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:23:33 +0200 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.ding Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fermat.mts.jhu.edu Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027459413 4946 128.220.17.18 (23 Jul 2002 21:23:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:23:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: #i!d%y+1tilG}1ua9z&9waMLqE>H+;pUwWFetZe]4uWiv;VE:GHLnT1\Gj]>l^(]R#}sD@E"(@?vMv,yb@`?32;i~D$6x6m*%!3gPyp-rb$}.%QpxZ!3Y+jESN5[s7SL_68Sc`Aek)A$M|h++b/2VjR.k+Tw4X+0a%:K-kcUeMZ(rs?}v\eG({5J&IPS Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, i686-pc-linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:10GnLyJGpit43Upv/hCPMhCbYaE= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45800 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45800 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > We want both functions available (delete immediately/expire > immediately), right? Do we really? Expiring immediately is almost a oxymoron. Expiry (as it works in Gnus) suggests something passive and deletion something active. I like Karl's patch. That's what I would like to see go through. -Nevin