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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
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