On 2014-07-23 16:25, Emanuel Berg writes: > Alan Schmitt writes: > >> My problem is twofolds: how do I make sure that the >> files corresponding to threads I've replied to remain >> on my hard drive, while other files may be cleared at >> some point > > You mean, you will delete the other files manually? No. Right now some article are present in my agent cache (in agent/nntp/news.gwene.org/gmane/emacs/gnus/user). If I understand things correctly, these articles may expire at some point: gnus-agent-expire-days The number of days that a ‘read’ article must stay in the agent's local disk before becoming eligible for expiration (While the name is the same, this doesn't mean expiring the article on the server. It just means deleting the local copy of the article). What is also important to understand is that the counter starts with the time the article was written to the local disk and not the time the article was read. Default 7. 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. > But this seems a bit sketchy so I recommend looking > around if there isn't a time tested solution > around... again, if you really feel you must delete the > other files that is! It seems the default value is to delete. And the manual argues against caching everything: "If you have an extremely slow NNTP connection, you may consider turning article caching on. Each article will then be stored locally under your home directory. As you may surmise, this could potentially use huge amounts of disk space, as well as eat up all your inodes so fast it will make your head swim. In vodka." (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Article-Caching.html) Alan -- OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7