Re: How does expiry in mail groups work?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Jack Vinson <jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu> writes:

> >>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 
> KG> How is this done in the other backends?  Is the time of the article
> KG> being marked as expirable being used there?  How do these backends
> KG> keep track of said time?
> 
> Lars simply uses the time the article was snarfed into Gnus as the "time."
> This is not optimal either, but I think he didn't want to add yet another
> line with the expiry time in it.  Maybe this is something for Lobster Gnus?

Not even in Petunia Gnus, I think.  Hmn.  Whee!  This is already in
September Gnus, now that I think of it.  (Sort of.)

`nn*-request-update-mark' is called whenever an article mark is set.
If nndb wishes to use it to keep a database of when articles are
marked as expirable and use that date when expiring, that's totally up
to nndb.  

I guess that most people use `total-expiry' on groups, though, so
perhaps arrival date is better in any case.

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