From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46429 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Diffinitive archiving method sought - Big prize money for best entrant Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 21:04:25 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031425599 21678 127.0.0.1 (7 Sep 2002 19:06:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 19:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17nkuj-0005dP-00 for ; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 21:06:37 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17nktT-0004WN-00; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 14:05:19 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 07 Sep 2002 14:05:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA04615 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 14:05:43 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 5920 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2002 19:05:02 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5915 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2002 19:05:02 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 7 Sep 2002 19:05:02 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g87J4V818551; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 21:04:31 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id VAA15513; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 21:04:26 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id AF05B3AFDE; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 21:04:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Harry Putnam Mail-Followup-To: Harry Putnam , In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:42:08 -0700") Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46429 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46429 Harry Putnam writes: > I think I understand the proceedure Kai, but it sounds even more > labor intensive than anything I had come up with. My whole aim is to > find a lazy way to do it. > > Piecing out the overview files and such doesn't fit into my lazy man > scheme.. hehe. Well, from my perspective it's all fairly easy, except teaching Gnus about the articles that have gone missing. But here is another, wicked, idea which does not involve Gnus at all and probably allows you to do it with almost no work: Let there be two machines, `work' and `archive'. Set up a leafnode on work and a leafnode on archive. The leafnode on work fetches articles from wherever you fetch articles from. The leafnode on archive fetches articles from work. Now tell (the leafnode on) work to expire articles after 3 months and tell (the leafnode on) archive to never expire articles. Done! kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)