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From: David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Expiring articles
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:54:46 -0400
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David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:

> How do I expire a number of articles in a mail group?  I only seem to
> be able to mark one at a time, using "E", but sometimes I would like
> to expire a number of items, or even everything in the group.

Use the process/prefix convention: mark the articles you want to
expire (using '#' on individual articles, 'M P b' to mark the whole
buffer, etc.) then type 'M-& E' to expire all of the marked articles.

> Also, is there a way of removing an item immediately, without having
> to wait a week (or whatever time I have specified for the group) for
> it to expire?

'B DEL'

  --dzm