Re: Confused about crosspost marking behavior.

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> [...]  Now I wouldn't have been surprised if it had either been
> marked the same as I marked it in the other group, or if it had not
> been marked at all, but to be marked differently both places was
> unexpected.

Yes, that's a strange behavior of Gnus.  If you were to change from
auto-expire to total-expire, the behavior would be more dwim-like:
both messages would have been marked as read, which would have made
them expirable.

I wonder whether one can do interesting tricks with the current
behavior...

There is a problem, though: what should happen if the article is
cross-posted to several groups, and some of them are auto-expirable
and some of them aren't?

> (Also, it might be nice to be able to choose whether or not a given
> command affects just the current article, or all instances of it...)

Yes, that would be nice.  It's been discussed on this list before, but
AFAIK, nothing much came of it.

kai
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