From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23598 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: some mail annoyances Date: 28 Jun 1999 11:37:01 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4yn1xp7ytu.fsf@sgichr.fastweb.no> <14195.59371.224963.121057@ralf.serv.net> <14196.6568.178842.849769@ralf.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161301 2883 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:48:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11126 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:38:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB23988; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:37:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:38:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA17949 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:38:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from beaver.jprc.com (BEAVER.JPRC.COM [207.86.147.217]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11092 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:37:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by beaver.jprc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA26330; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:37:01 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e;fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6h R;Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of "26 Jun 1999 15:16:19 +0200" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070088 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.88) XEmacs/21.2 (Chiyoda) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23598 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23598 Per Abrahamsen writes: > I never press `E'. I use total-expire on "low interest mailing > lists", and never delete private mail. I'm of a similar mind. nnml:personal.* never disappear. Once a year or so, I shovel a great deal of mail to nnml:archive.y1998. with `B m'. nnml:list.* usually have total-expiry set, with the proviso that certain mailing lists where a somewhat long-term memory is important have expiry-wait set to some large value. nnml:list.ding is set this way, with a 45-day delay. I also have some weird ones (such as nnml:tomb, where bad mail [spam] goes to die) that have immediate total-expiry. > Why should I? After 10+ years I have ~300Mb in my mail archive, > which I believe is around $20 worth of disc space. I don't think > $20 is a high price for the ability to track my online > correspondance back 10 years. Yup. I've been using Gnus as a mailer since 1988 or so, back when it was GNUS 2.10 and I'd done some really rather rude hackery to symlink an nnspool configuration into my need for a mail-as-news viewpoint, using too much external shell script hackery for delivery and deletion, because my elisp skill wasn't adequate to the task at the time. Kai's nnir.el is a wondrously good thing for me. --karl