From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2426 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hugh Lawson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to save, retrieve articles Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 19:24:20 GMT Organization: RoadRunner - Triad Message-ID: <87of2iv58x.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> References: <8765oqbyzx.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> <84el3e7ru9.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <871xzebldc.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668861 15089 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:54:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:40 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!nntpserver.com!news-west.rr.com!cyclone.tampabay.rr.com!news-post.tampabay.rr.com!twister.southeast.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eKNUQbFJd06duSusX/YKRtcLDyc= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.26.198.64 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: twister.southeast.rr.com 1052076260 66.26.198.64 (Sun, 04 May 2003 15:24:20 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 15:24:20 EDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2566 Original-Lines: 31 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2566 Tue Jan 17 17:30:40 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2426 Archived-At: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes: > Hugh Lawson writes: > >> What I want to do is to save articles, and selectively delete >> individual articles when they are no longer desired. >> >> The reason for saving some articles is that they give me solutions to >> problems, or sometimes just interesting problems that I want to >> investigate further. Being able to save, read, and delete articles as >> if the saved-article directory were a newsgroup seems like a powerful >> way to do this, but I can't figure out how. > > Then do make a (mail) group (G m in group buffer). You can save > articles to a group using B c (gnus-summary-copy-article). > > B c > Copy this article to: nnfolder:foo > [ No such group: nnfolder:foo. Create it? (y or n) ] Thanks, this is looking good. About what I want. Right now, it's copying articles to ~/mbox, which puts them in the same file as the one used by pine. Can I set a variable to make the saved articles go to a different mbox file? -- Hugh Lawson hlawson@triad.rr.com