Re: Purging "canceled" messages

[Joel Reicher]

Lancelot appearing sideways <shill@wso.williams.edu> writes:

> Hello.  Sometimes when I am reading newsgroups I come across a string
> of articles which, when I try to read them, give the message "No such
> message (may have expired or been canceled)" and a G appears in the
> Summary buffer.  Is there a way to have Gnus search through the
> messages in a group for these expired/canceled messages and mark them
> ahead of time for deletion?

The correct response to this is either "it wouldn't help" or "gnus
does that already". What you see mainly happens as a result of the
article `going missing' between the time you entered the group (when
it still existed) and the time you reached it in the summary buffer.

Cheers,

        - Joel