Re: duplicate copies

[Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>]

>>>>> "Harry" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

    Harry> Imagine you read a thread and you want to hold the messages
    Harry> awhile, then a week later you see there are 10 new
    Harry> messsages in the thread but in reading them you get mixed
    Harry> up as to which ones you already kept, So end up copying
    Harry> some more than once.

I would cache the required articles. (*). That way, duplicates
cannot occur.

    Harry> There is quite a lot about dups in the manual but all seems
    Harry> very complicated and hard to follow.

I have seen the following variables:

gnus-suppress-duplicates
gnus-summary-ignore-duplicates
nnmail-treat-duplicates (set to delete).

At the moment I am confused at having 3 variables for the same
task. It is my guess:

- the top two only work within one group??? Or are they global
for all groups? Obviously, I am confused... What is the scope
for each of these variables?

- The first one marks duplicates with (M).
- The second hides duplicates so they aren't shown.
- the third one deletes the physical copy.

Can somebody please try to un-confuse me? I would really like
to know what these variables do.


For instance, lets say I wanted:

- duplicate messages within each group to be deleted (or not shown).

- duplicate messages between each group to be marked as read, but still
shown.

Is this possible?

(Note: I am assuming that the groups are mailing lists, hence Gnus
wont detect cross posts, at least with my current mail filtering
rules).

    Harry> There the user can throw a handful of messages at a group
    Harry> and will be prompted as to whether they really want dups.
    Harry> If you say "no" then the ones that are dups don't get
    Harry> moved.  A handy way to sort it out.

I think one of the above *might* help, but I would use the caching
feature instead.


-- 
Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>