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From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ancient articles
Date: 31 Mar 2005 19:13:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfoeczn0og.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9r7hv4wlw.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>

>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

  Reiner> On Thu, Mar 31 2005, Phillip Lord wrote:

  >> Quite a few of my emails are marked as ancient (with an A).
  >>
  >> Can any one tell me:-
  >>
  >> 1) What is an ancient email?
  >> 2) How does this mark happen?

  Reiner> "A" isn't ancient:

  Reiner> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Read Articles") ] | `O' | Articles that
  Reiner> were marked as read in previous sessions and are now | "old"
  Reiner> (`gnus-ancient-mark').  `----

Sorry, typo. O for ancient, A for answered. 


  Reiner> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Other Marks") ] | * All articles that
  Reiner> you have replied to or made a followup to (i.e., | have
  Reiner> answered) will be marked with an `A' in the second column |
  Reiner> (`gnus-replied-mark').  `----

  >> 3) How do I remove it, and just have them expirable like other
  >> things.

  Reiner> (info "(gnus)Setting Marks")

Do you have any idea why they appear though? I am trying to determine
if there is any specific semantics to being ancient. 

Cheers

Phil


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-31 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-31 14:03 Phillip Lord
2005-03-31 15:46 ` Christian Dietrich
2005-03-31 18:11   ` Phillip Lord
2005-04-01 16:23     ` Ted Zlatanov
2005-03-31 16:18 ` Reiner Steib
2005-03-31 18:13   ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2005-03-31 19:31     ` Reiner Steib
2005-04-04  9:48       ` Phillip Lord
2005-03-31 21:07     ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-04-04 10:04       ` Phillip Lord
2005-04-04 20:53         ` Adam Sjøgren

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