From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16358 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: expiring with gnus-parameters Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:40:52 +0530 Message-ID: <878v1unacz.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ppv79inb.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372392672 22672 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2013 04:11:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 04:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 28 06:11:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UsQ1e-0005QD-Uz for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:11:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57347 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsQ1e-0006wO-9H for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:11:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsQ1Y-0006vg-Ja for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsQ1V-0000lC-VF for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:11:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230]:62710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsQ1V-0000kb-Nl for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:11:01 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id kp12so1911385pab.7 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:11:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:user-mail-address:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=skrmH0Mh9MIWWn4tLOLeoMkx/LP1RzVnVMBnWKrp/Uo=; b=HpIoJApAebeEI+SYERxUapBf6kOxWWee9Nto3TGKz49Fff+MtP7/t7g+yQCJeZ1faC L2n6ROwGLQu683GMoQmh7YOBW1A7AIHmqAsLz9P5gF3Ji7sMofXnwbLueJZ7K38kjQDC dFNtHkC6Nfwi7VL2SLpeakN+pUcQOLgpwEyL7La5Xb9aUPA7W9EuBXTOSg3V9NSU/Raw neqjcBhstRa5kHNfoCBN0WW9kbE/OZthEuybJemo9IPQy5gcQ9rGDWSs4MivAAj57+5c fx3jRQmPdslTZ72/jsnX95L1tc2y3mZsYww2gCKwjxsy3wznKS19FqHVlRUx3aG0sPcO Igug== X-Received: by 10.68.189.10 with SMTP id ge10mr6608588pbc.127.1372392660217; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([122.167.110.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id i16sm6788470pag.18.2013.06.27.21.10.57 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:10:59 -0700 (PDT) User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <87ppv79inb.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:35:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::230 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16358 Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 28 2013,Harry Putnam wrote: [snipped 21 lines] > The result I'm after is to have certain groups maintain a specific > backlog of messages like 90 days worth or whatever, and to > periodically total-expire them down to the actual 90 day backlog, > without me actually doing any intervention. Yes, me too. I've always wondered whether there's any way to do this without opening the groups. If it can be bound to M-g and that too only once/24 hrs, it would be great. sivaram --