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Re: On the best practices
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Kai Grossjohann |
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Re: On the best practices |
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Tue, 11 May 2004 09:04:07 +0200 |
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Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
> On 7 May 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>
>> I suggest to make them dormant, if you don't want to see them.
>
> Hmm. This is not exactly what I meant :) They are useless (or almost) in
> the current group but I like sometimes to be able to read old past
> articles.
It seems to me that dormant articles will do this, and if total-expire
is off, read articles will also do this.
>> (The meaning of dormant is "hidden until a followup appears", and that
>> seems to be pretty much exactly what you want.)
>
> Hmm, ok, but there is little chance someone will post a followup to a
> '96 post ;) So then, how can I see them again ? Using '/' in summary ?
Yes, `/ D' will show the dormants.
>> Of, if total-expire is off, just mark them as read. That's what I
>
> That is an idea but I sometimes, force, catch-up on groups and I fear I
> would certainly loose my ticked/read articles if I would do it on a
> wrong group, right ?
I don't know about *force* catch-up, but just hitting `c' on a group
is normally not dangerous:
- It never marks ticked or dormant articles for deletion.
- If auto-expire for that group is on, it marks articles E
(expirable).
- If auto-expire is off, it marks articles as read. (But this will
make them expirable if total-expire is on.)
So if normal reading (ie, selecting an article to show it) would make
an article be marked for deletion later on (because of total-expire or
auto-expire), then catchup will also do that, and if normal reading
does *not* mark it for deletion later, then neither will catchup.
>> do. It's quite quick, even with a thousand messages in a group that
>> are marked as read.
>
> Hmm, I have to say, I can't choose how to deal with that ;)
?
Kai