From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18787 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnrss group and auto-expire Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:38:37 -0800 Message-ID: <87372wa31e.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516729027 7713 195.159.176.226 (23 Jan 2018 17:37:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:37:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 23 18:37:02 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ee2VD-0001D0-DE for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:36:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ee2XC-00060W-6t for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:38:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41101) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ee2XA-00060P-0l for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ee2X6-0002yR-UE for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55938 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ee2X6-0002wA-Nf for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ee2V0-0000XS-EW for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:36:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:wy7KtXEpK9UJ0lWaRJgKZOLJH8o= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18787 Archived-At: Rud1ger Sch1erz writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I'm not certain, but I wouldn't expect expiry to work at all in nnrss >> groups. They are essentially read-only, whereas expiry means you want >> the articles to *go* somewhere after a certain period of time. I >> wouldn't expect you could make nnrss articles go anywhere. > > Well, when fetching articles from an RSS feed, don't they get stored > locally in a rss file in ~/News/rss/...? > > I would expect, that I was able, to kill them there, which should also be > possible by expiring? Sure, you couldn't kill'em at the origin RSS > feed... You're right, there is a `nnrss-request-expire-articles', guess I should have looked at the code first! My only suggestion at this point is to e-debug that function, and step through it -- maybe you'll see something going wrong. Eric