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From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: A couple of newbie questions
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 20:39:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84k7dqpc01.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ademfkwe.monosilane@boppy.dyndns.org>

Paul Stevenson <paul@gleet.org.uk> writes:

> Is it not those message which are at least 7 days old and are
> expirable that are deleted?  That is, one can make a 3-week-old
> article expirable and it will be gone as soon as you leave the group,
> even though it has only just been marked expirable.

Well, err, uh, *cough*.

I think that the manual carefully avoids to say when is the time
counted, and I believe it's actually counted differently in different
backends.

One of the darker corners in Gnus.

Thanks for reminding me of that.
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     [not found]   ` <87ademfkwe.monosilane@boppy.dyndns.org>
2003-04-19 18:39     ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
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2003-04-21 21:19   ` Jesper Harder

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