Re: Soups and marks

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

Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Usually there two kinds of `read' messages: those that you want to
> delete and those that you want to keep.  Without total-expire, the
> ones to delete are the `expirable' ones, the ones to keep the `read'
> ones.  With total-expire, the ones to delete are the `read' ones
> whereas the ones to keep will be `ticked' or `dormant' (I suppose).

Yes, but SOUPing always assumes that you want to delete the messages.
(Which might be a faulty assumption.)  If the group is auto-expirable,
the articles are marked as expirable; if it's a total-expirable group,
the articles are marked as read.  Since the user takes a copy of the
articles when SOUPing, that seems like the most reasonable default
action to take.

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