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Subject: Re: B DEL is being treated as expiry?
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prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Ideally, I think it would be nice for all the expiry code to be
> removed from the backend interface.  Given
> nn*-request-{move,accept}-article, Gnus can do expiry itself, and more
> uniformly than when backends do it themselves.

Yay!  Way to go!  Just implement nnchoke-request-delete-article in
all backends, and Gnus does the rest.

Hm.  Except for computing the time for expiry.  I think different
backends use different methods.  That's not good.  Maybe some
additional mechanism is needed for the time computation.

kai
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