From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5906 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How does expiry in mail groups work? Date: 12 Apr 1996 05:16:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146441 1748 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA27826 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:43:49 -0700 Original-Received: from hler.ifi.uio.no (4867@hler.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.23]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 05:16:08 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by hler.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 05:16:05 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 26 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5906 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5906 Jack Vinson writes: > >>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann 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. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."