From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16979 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 16:51:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8761ipnuxe.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org> <878unljfiu.fsf@debian.uxu> <878unk9mpr.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7466360007235798386==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406127114 4408 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2014 14:51:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:51:54 +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 16:51:49 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 1X9xtV-00042W-3Z for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:51:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9xtU-0006wf-OS for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:51:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57171) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9xtO-0006vp-O0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:51:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9xtK-0008G1-3L for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:51:42 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9xtJ-0008Fq-T6 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X9xtH-0003oa-QC for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:51:35 +0200 Original-Received: from top-wifi.irisa.fr ([131.254.66.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:51:35 +0200 Original-Received: from alan.schmitt by top-wifi.irisa.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:51:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 68 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: top-wifi.irisa.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CKR4Dp91lSQroG4KGOOZtfyACyM= 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:16979 Archived-At: --===============7466360007235798386== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 =20=20 The number of days that a =E2=80=98read=E2=80=99 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." 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