Confused by several things in gnus.

Confused by several things in gnus.

[Nacho]

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Hello.

I've started to use gnus to read news and I am having some problems to
understand some of the features. I hope you can help me (and maybe
others as well).

About the expiration, the manual says that the articles are not
deleted unless they are marked as expirables and some time has
passed. But, are the articles that I read from the News server saved?
or it refers to other articles? I have not found the place where the
articles could be saved.

If they are saved, how can I make all the groups expirables as I read
them? Or, is there a function to mark all the articles as expirables?

Can I collapse all the threads in the summary view? So they are not
expanded unless I read them.

Also, can I see all the messages in the summary, and not only the
unread ones?

Is there a way to completely remove killed groups? I still can see
them if I list the killed groups.

It would be great if I could see the .gnus file of other people,
specially commented ones. In the FAQ there is a link to a web supposed
to have some, but for now it doesn't work (404 Not Found).

Thanks a lot for your help. I really hope to use gnus better and
forget the Netscape Messager ;)

Best Regards.



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Re: Confused by several things in gnus.

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
>> Expiration on your Usenet server is controlled by the server
>> administrator.

Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf@att.net> writes:
> Is there a way to query the expiration policy?

Ask your server administrator for a copy of his "expire.ctl" file (or
its moral equivalent, in systems other than INN).

Expiration policies are not available via the NNTP protocol itself,
and the administrator is free to set policy on a per-group or per-
hierarchy basis.