Keeping interesting messages

[Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk>]

I'm pretty much set up the way I want now with Gnus. I'm using Oort
Gnus 0.06 with the Agent, and I have adaptive scoring, mail splitting,
and expiry sorted (at least as a good starting point).

One thing I'm still not sure of the best way to handle, though. I'd
like to be able to "keep" messages and news articles that interest me
- possibly for a long time, possibly just for a few days (until I get
a chance to deal with it). I don't want to leave the messages unread,
as that interferes with my normal scan-read-catchup approach to
reading groups. I'd rather keep the messages either in their original
groups, or in some sort of "parallel" arrangement, so I don't lose
track of where they came from.

At the moment, I'm ticking articles (I'm assuming that neither
total-expire nor the agent expiry will delete ticked articles). This
is OK for "keep until I get round to it" articles, but not so good for
longer-term retention (the ticked articles are too obtrusive).

I've considered marking articles as dormant, but that doesn't seem
quite right for what I want. I thought about saving the articles to
some form of mbox file, but again I'm not sure that will be what I
want. Copying the articles to an "interesting" folder is an option,
but that loses the association with the original source (can I add an
X-Original-Group header when copying, and filter on that, maybe?)

Does anyone have any suggestions on a good way of handling this sort
of thing? I'd love it if Gnus gave me a way of easily weeding the good
stuff from the cr*p - nothing I've ever found before has been ideal
(the nearest I got was marking articles as "Keep" but "Read" in Forte
Agent, but it was still a little too easy to forget the good articles
I'd saved...)

Thanks in advance,
Paul.