From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: archiving threads one contributes to
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:36:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2egxc7zap.fsf@top-wifi.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ha282jh1.fsf@debian.uxu>
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On 2014-07-23 17:16, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> I also have that value 7 and all my posts are there,
> from way back. Perhaps just because the posts are
> marked in certain ways, you still have to issue some
> command to have them removed from your disk. I don't
> know except I have old posts, lots of them.
I checked and I do too.
>> 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.
> 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'
(https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Agent-Expiry.html). By
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.
(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.
Alan
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[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 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.5920.1406137007.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-07-23 18:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-23 18:52 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-07-22 16:28 Alan Schmitt
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