winsphinX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanks, bacause i couldnot distinguish exactly total-expire and > aoto-expire, i set both. After reading your explains, i think > total-exp can free more disk space, isn't it?
No. Three options: 1. No expiry. Only articles explicitly marked with 'E' from the summary buffer are expired. Reading articles marks them 'R'ead. 2. Auto-expiry. Only articles marked expirable are expired, but reading articles marks them 'E'xpirable. 3. Total-expiry. Articles merely marked 'R'ead are expired, along with articles explicitly marked 'E'xpirable. Assuming you read every article, auto- and total-expiry will eventually expire them all at the same times. It's just a question as to whether you'd prefer to mark articles as expirable or read when you read them. I tend to use total-expiry for everything; it has predictable behavior if I'm switching it on and off for a group, and I understand better how it works with scoring. > yes, i know newsgroups posts are on the servers, but after i > retrieving/reading a post, i think it should be on my disk. days by > days, even the posts are very few bytes, they will still consume disk > space, so what i need is to free local disk space -- maybe by another > way instead of expiry. Where are the articles? If we know what's saving them and where, it might be possible to explain how and how to clean them up. --dzm _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
