From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28652 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Newbie question - expiring Date: 07 Jan 2000 18:05:08 +0100 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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165462 30950 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:57:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CFFD051F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:08:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB20207; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:08:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 07 Jan 2000 11:08:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10889 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:08:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF52D051F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:06:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id SAA28019; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:05:08 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id SAA22078; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:05:08 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-6) id SAA27381; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:05:08 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: Roman Belenov In-Reply-To: Roman Belenov's message of "07 Jan 2000 19:39:51 +0300" Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28652 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28652 Roman Belenov writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >=20 > > Ticked articles _are_ unexpirable by default. What makes you think > > they aren't? >=20 > >From the Gnus manual, "Unread articles" topic : >=20 > [...] However, articles can be expired, so if you > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > want to keep an article forever, you'll have to make it persistent > (*Note Persistent Articles::). I see. Right. The manual is referring to news articles, here. You were talking about auto-expire which only applies to mail groups, and in mail groups, ticked messages aren't expired. Maybe the Gnus manual needs clarification? kai --=20 A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)