From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28192 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: duplicate copies Date: 14 Dec 1999 14:20:53 +1100 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 1035165084 28633 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15059 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:26:55 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB21543; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:21:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:21:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA27836 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:21:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (bam@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.7]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA15020 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:20:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from bam@localhost) by silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id OAA32411; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:20:54 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au: bam set sender to bmay@csse.monash.edu.au using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bmay/ In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:46:55 -0800" Original-Lines: 59 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28192 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28192 >>>>> "Harry" == Harry Putnam 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