Re: rss shimbuns

[Nigel Beck <me@nigelbeck.com>]

David - tks, not expiring them seems to work.  I'll try the other
approach as well when I next restart Gnus


> Nigel Beck <me@nigelbeck.com> writes:
>> I eval'ed that and some of the blogs are now expiring. This one
>> "http://www.andrewbeck.ca/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" isn't... Maybe
>> there is something strange about it?  I believe its hosted by blogger or
>> something like that, so it shouldn't be too abnormal
>
> Ah, OK. This happens when there are postings in the feed which are older
> than the expiry-time. I think this can be considered a bug, but not in
> rss-blogs but in sb-rss.el itself. I will have to take this to the
> emacs-w3m mailing list.
>
> For now, you can circumvent this problem by either not deleting/expiring
> the articles (just mark them as read) or by setting a large expiry time
> on the group. 
>
> For doing the latter, completely delete the group (with 'C-u G DEL'),
> restart Gnus and create it anew. Then do 'G p' on the group and set
>
> ((expiry-time . 300))
>
> Regards,
> David

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