From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8478 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: More expire/adaptive thoughts/questions Date: 24 Oct 1996 15:51:25 +0100 Organization: Universite de Lausanne, BSP Sender: whardake@iptsun2.unil.ch Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148632 12359 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:17:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:17:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 11167 invoked from smtpd); 24 Oct 1996 15:21:04 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 1996 15:21:03 -0000 Original-Received: from cisun29e.unil.ch (cisun29e.unil.ch [130.223.8.29]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:57:23 +0200 Original-Received: from iptsun2.unil.ch by cisun29e with SMTP inbound; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:52:45 +0200 Original-Received: by iptsun2.unil.ch (5.x/Unil-3.1/) id AA01385; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:51:26 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 X-Url: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~hardaker Original-Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.52/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8478 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8478 Ok, to quote the manual: By the way, that line up there about Gnus never expiring non-expirable articles is a lie. If you put `total-expire' in the group parameters, articles will not be marked as expirable, but all read articles will be put through the expiry process. Use with extreme caution. 1) Why is this a bad idea (ie, why extreme caution)? 2) One guess: does it zap cached or ticked articles? The advantage I see of this is that then you can have articles work with adaptive scoring again and marked as read, etc, but they'll still get deleted... also 3) If I do something like, say, find ~/News/nnml/group -name '[0-9]*' -atime +14 -exec rm {} \; What does this do to gnus? IE, is it possible to run a expire cron job safely? Or does this mess up the active/overview files? Wes