Soups and marks

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Hi all,

I have begun to brew soups.  While this is rather nice, I do have one
minor problem.  When brewing a soup, Gnus by default marks all souped
articles as read.  I would like to have control over the articles that
will be deleted, however (often I want to keep souped articles), and
as I use total-expire, marking them as read is not quite what I want.

I have therefore set gnus-souped-mark to ?\? (dormant) which works
rather nicely, mostly.  However, I have found out that I have to
retrieve all of a group in order to see the dormant articles.  Is
there a better way?

I know that acutally, the articles are marked ?F, but it seems that
Gnus thinks these are read, as well, when I reenter a group after
brewing soups.

I have also tried ?\  (unread), but that didn't allow me to
distinguish between unread articles that have already been souped and
those that haven't.

I can't use ?! as I use that for articles where I know I want to keep
them.  (For souped articles, I don't know yet.)  Wouldn't be able to
distinguish between souped and other articles there, either.

Can anyone give me a hand here?  Should I convert to auto-expire
rather than total-expire in order to have the `read' mark left over
for such things?

Thanks in advance for any hint you might be able to give.
kai
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