crossposted mail articles not expired?

[soma@cs.unm.edu (Anil B. Somayaji)]

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Hello!  There's a little "feature" that has been bugging me for a little
while now.  I have lots of nnml groups, and my split rules often
result in crossposts.  This all works fine, and in fact I love it.
Unfortunately, when I have an article expire in one group, it remains
present in the other crossposted groups.  Even worse, the article now
has Xref lines referring to non-existent files (hard links, really).

Here's a real example.  I have a message that was crossposted between my
"adaptive" and "forrest" directories.  In the header, it has:

  Xref: atropos.cs.unm.edu forrest:1000 adaptive:276

However, I had marked the article for expiration in the adaptive
group, and so adaptive:276 no longer exists.  But forrest:1000 does,
with the reference to adaptive:276!

Perhaps it should be an option, but it would be nice if gnus
automatically expired all copies of an article.  Or, maybe when you
manually mark an article for expiration (which is all I do - I'm a
pack rat), there would be a command for "mark to expire this article
and all of its crosspostings."  And, if this is not done, maybe the
bogus Xref should be removed.

I'd be happy to hack on this, if someone can point me to the relevant
functions - I haven't studied the gnus source much.

BTW, I'm running pgnus 0.66.  Thanks!

  --Anil

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