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Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

  > Hi,
  > 
  > >>>>> On 31 Mar 1999 14:52:23 +0200
  > >>>>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE said:
  > 
  >  Kai> (1) Most messages you keep forever, so they'd just be marked as
  >  Kai>     dormant (!) via gnus-select-article-hook or
  >  Kai>     gnus-mark-article-hook.
  > 
  > Did you mean dormant (?) or ticked (!)? I think dormant, since ticked
  > articles are shown always by default, which is probably not what the
  > original poster wants.

Er.  M.  The (!) was meant to emphasize the word `dormant'.  So maybe
I should have written

        *dormant* (?)

with *...* indicating emphasize and (?) indicating the character.

  >  Kai> (2) Some messages you want to delete, so you mark them as read
  >  Kai>     such that they will be expired by the total-expire
  >  Kai>     mechanism.
  > 
  > FWIW, how does one mark as Read (big R!), not read (small r)?

One is what happens automatically (via gnus-select-article-hook or
gnus-mark-article-hook) , the other is what happens when you
explicitly do `M r', say.

kai
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