From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: archiving threads one contributes to
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:25:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnsg2arh.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.5920.1406137007.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
>> I want to make sure the articles are copied locally
>> to some place where they won't expire. However I
>> don't want to retain every article posted on these
>> newsgroups indefinitely. Why not? It is just a
>> bunch of text files, all neatly organized
>> already. My News directory is 5.7M!
>
> I've been using gnus to read news and RSS for two
> weeks (before it was only for email), and mine is at
> 53M. I see that all the RSS from gwene is cached
> there as well.
Yes, 53M is a lot in two weeks!
Either you have just been much, much more active, or
there is something different in our setups/usage.
You can check how many files you have in ~/News with:
$ file ~/News -type f | wc -l
and ditto directories, '-type d'. (I have 725 in 63.)
>> If you want to delete the files with discretion,
>> perhaps you can tell Gnus never to do it (if indeed
>> Gnus does it for you) and then write a script that
>> deletes unwanted posts habitually while keeping
>> some, based on the Message ID and Subject headers I
>> mentioned.
>
> I've dig a little into this, and it seems that one
> needs to manually run 'gnus-agent-expire' or
> gnus-agent-expire-group' ... the way, you should
> check the value of agent-enable-expiration in your
> groups, if it's ENABLE and you call one of these
> commands, then old messages will go away.
The value of `gnus-agent-enable-expiration' is indeed
ENABLE, but I take it it doesn't matter as I won't
invoke those commands?
> (A bit later ...) I marked the messages I wanted to
> keep with '*', and I ran 'gnus-agent-expire'. It
> freed about 30M (it may seem small, but recall that
> I've been using it for about 2 weeks). So I guess a
> combination of '*' and regularly expiring is the
> solution here.
In the help for `gnus-agent-enable-expiration', it
says:
This value may be overridden to disable expiration
in specific categories, topics, and groups. Of
course, you could change
gnus-agent-enable-expiration to DISABLE then enable
expiration per categories, topics, and groups.
So I think perhaps that'd be worth examining.
If marking is the best way for you, perhaps you could
"semi-automatize" that for example by writing a defun
that when you call it, it marks all messages in the
thread (with the same subject, say), or something like
this.
Because, you have a very well-defined thing what you'd
like to do and not to do. Delete all except for those
in threads where I (you) have been active. That's
something that's 100% possible to automatize, you just
have to find out how.
But from my perspective I would rather examine why your
News is so big after so little time.
--
underground experts united
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.5872.1406046569.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-07-22 17:51 ` John Hasler
2014-07-22 18:39 ` Alan Schmitt
[not found] ` <mailman.5875.1406054409.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-07-22 20:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-23 6:42 ` Alan Schmitt
[not found] ` <mailman.5889.1406097766.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-07-23 14:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-23 14:51 ` Alan Schmitt
[not found] ` <mailman.5906.1406127108.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-07-23 15:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-23 17:36 ` Alan Schmitt
[not found] ` <mailman.5920.1406137007.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-07-23 18:25 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2014-07-23 18:52 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-07-22 16:28 Alan Schmitt
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