From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
Subject: Re: mark crossposts as expirable
Date: 31 Mar 1999 14:52:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf3e2l254o.fsf@ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Roderick Schertler's message of "30 Mar 1999 12:13:35 -0500"
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> writes:
> My intention was to have most of my mail crossposted to several groups
> (a group for each local user, plus other specialized groups). The idea
> was to have lots of ways to find old messages. Most messages I keep
> forever, so they'd just be marked as read in the normal fashion.
>
> Some messages I don't want to save, though. For these I figured the most
> straightforward thing to do would be to have a way to mark an article as
> expirable in all the groups it appears in. I delete about 20% of the
> mail I receive, so doing this by hand isn't really reasonable.
My suggestion applies to your situation, if you accept two changes:
(1) Most messages you keep forever, so they'd just be marked as
dormant (!) via gnus-select-article-hook or
gnus-mark-article-hook.
(2) Some messages you want to delete, so you mark them as read such
that they will be expired by the total-expire mechanism.
So, all that you really need to do is to use different marks. Is that
a problem?
kai
--
I'd like to welcome you and an orange juice, please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-31 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-28 15:44 Roderick Schertler
1999-03-28 17:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-29 9:48 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-04-02 13:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-03 10:06 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-29 9:48 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-30 14:29 ` Roderick Schertler
1999-03-30 14:50 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-30 17:13 ` Roderick Schertler
1999-03-31 12:52 ` Kai.Grossjohann [this message]
1999-03-31 13:36 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-03-31 13:56 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 15:59 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-03-31 16:21 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 23:28 ` Justin Sheehy
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