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Vin Shelton <acs@xemacs.org> writes:

  > [...] Just to be absolutely clear: I'm using auto-expiry and when
  > I want to preserve an article and keep it from being reaped by the
  > expiry process, I'm using 'd'.  Does this preserve the article, or
  > will it magically disappear after the expiry time has lapsed, even
  > though the 'E' mark has gone away. [...]

This will preserve the article.  No articles will be deleted unless it
fulfills at least one of the following two criteria:

(1) It is marked `E'.
(2) Total-expire is turned on for the group and the article is marked
    as read (`r' or `R' or `O').

kai
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