From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24539 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Lofgren Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: suggestion for expiry Date: 28 Jul 1999 18:21:25 +0200 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 1035162089 9297 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:01:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03836 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:29:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAB09696; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:21:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:22:48 -0500 (CDT) 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 LAA05661 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:22:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from brahma.sics.se (brahma.sics.se [193.10.66.43]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03703 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:21:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from muneca.sics.se (muneca.sics.se [193.10.66.59]) by brahma.sics.se (8.8.8/SICS) via ESMTP id SAA13941 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:21:26 +0200 (MET DST) env-from (lofgren@sics.se) Original-Received: (from lofgren@localhost) by muneca.sics.se (8.7.1/8.7.1) id SAA01458; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:21:25 +0200 (METDST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Max Froumentin's message of "28 Jul 1999 14:02:24 +0100" Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24539 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24539 >>>>> "Max" == Max Froumentin writes: Max> I like gnus for its ability to wait before deleting expirable Max> mail messages (nnmail-expiry-wait-function, etc.). In my Max> mail groups, expiry length is set to 30 days. When I keep Max> messages ticked for more than a month, and then I mark them Max> expirable, they are deleted immediately. Am I the only one to Max> be bothered by this? I find it very convenient. If I want to save the article after unticking, I just mark it as read instead of expired. Typical example is a message on bugtraq that seems interesting. I tick the article until I have time to look into if my systems are vulnerable, and when I'm done I expire it. If that means th article is deleted right away, then that's exactly what I want. After all, I had plenty of time to look at it. Max> May I suggest that expiry be based on another date than the Max> message's 'Date:' field? Rather, another field storing the Max> date of the last time the message was read seems to me more Max> appropriate. What do people think? This would be a very bad idea, because then Gnus behavior depends on the configuration of *another system*. If I set my date back a few weeks/months/years, I can have my mail expired on your machine right away. Arrival time would be more interesting, since then you're only trusting your own system. Tom -- T. Lofgren - Wherever I lay my .emacs, that's my ${HOME} "Hear that, Mr Anderson? That's the sound of inevitability." - Smith