From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16981 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: archiving threads one contributes to Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:36:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8761ipnuxe.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org> <878unljfiu.fsf@debian.uxu> <878unk9mpr.fsf@debian.uxu> <87ha282jh1.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3839636517039222908==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406137018 9428 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2014 17:36:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:36:58 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 19:36:51 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XA0TB-0001M6-HQ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:36:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XA0TB-00027g-4v for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:36:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XA0T2-00027Z-N0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:36:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XA0Sx-00058U-22 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:36:40 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37782) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XA0Sw-00058O-Ru for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:36:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XA0Su-00015V-Ot for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:36:32 +0200 Original-Received: from cbg35-2-78-242-14-140.fbx.proxad.net ([78.242.14.140]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:36:32 +0200 Original-Received: from alan.schmitt by cbg35-2-78-242-14-140.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:36:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 66 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cbg35-2-78-242-14-140.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0a1v/jxQe57D+9L33aW+QE8bza0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16981 Archived-At: --===============3839636517039222908== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2014-07-23 17:16, Emanuel Berg 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. 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