From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23455 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nathan Williams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: some mail annoyances [deleting mail] Date: 22 Jun 1999 15:18:39 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nwilliams@primeon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161184 2097 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org 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 PAA10012 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:25:23 -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 OAB07970; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:21:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:22:11 -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 OAA14301 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:22:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from primeon.com ([207.138.150.75]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA09840 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from NWILLIAMS.primeon.com [172.16.25.49] by y2000.mail [127.0.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP5.R) for ; Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:19:38 -0400 Original-To: per@bothner.com In-Reply-To: Per Bothner's message of "22 Jun 1999 11:33:29 -0700" Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070087 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.87) Emacs/20.3 X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: ding@gnus.org X-Return-Path: nwilliams@primeon.com Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23455 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23455 Per Bothner writes: > The most common command when reading mail is "delete this message > and go to the next one". This *has* to be a single-key command, > not requiring any key modifiers. Several people have already mentioned the tactic of having Gnus (1) automatically mark read messages as expired and (2) remove expired messages quickly or immediately (upon exiting the group). This is what I do (with values of "quickly" ranging from "immediate" for certain highly-topical groups to a couple of weeks for personal mail). It sounds like this satisfies your constraints. Is there something wrong with it, other than the use of the term "expire" instead of "delete"? - Nathan