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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>    Gnus does not behave like traditional mail readers.  If you want to
> make it behave that way, you can, but it's an uphill battle.

I think that a function which is like gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-read
except that it ticks articles rather than marking them as read is
useful for mail groups, and will go a long way to making Gnus behave
like traditional mail readers.  (Err, you also need to put this
function in gnus-mark-article-hook, of course.)

What else is needed?  Turning on total-expire?  Is that sufficient?

I think there is no harm done in providing a few convenience functions
and maybe a bit of advice (read: sample Lisp code) for people who wish
to do this, so that they can try it for a couple of months before
realizing that they didn't want this in the first place :-)

What do you think?

kai
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