Re: archiving threads one contributes to

2014-07-23 Thread Alan Schmitt
Hello Emanuel, On 2014-07-22 22:38, Emanuel Berg embe8...@student.uu.se writes: Alan Schmitt alan.schm...@polytechnique.org writes: Thank you for the suggestion. Leafnode seems to be a little heavyweight. It seems that what I want is based on 'gnus-summary-copy-article' and tweaking

Re: archiving threads one contributes to

2014-07-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Alan Schmitt alan.schm...@polytechnique.org writes: My problem is twofolds: how do I make sure that the files corresponding to threads I've replied to remain on my hard drive, while other files may be cleared at some point You mean, you will delete the other files manually? and how do I

Re: archiving threads one contributes to

2014-07-23 Thread Alan Schmitt
On 2014-07-23 16:25, Emanuel Berg embe8...@student.uu.se writes: Alan Schmitt alan.schm...@polytechnique.org writes: My problem is twofolds: how do I make sure that the files corresponding to threads I've replied to remain on my hard drive, while other files may be cleared at some point

Re: archiving threads one contributes to

2014-07-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Alan Schmitt alan.schm...@polytechnique.org writes: No. Right now some article are present in my agent cache (in agent/nntp/news.gwene.org/gmane/emacs/gnus/user). If I understand things correctly, these articles may expire at some point: gnus-agent-expire-days The number of days

Re: archiving threads one contributes to

2014-07-23 Thread Alan Schmitt
On 2014-07-23 17:16, Emanuel Berg embe8...@student.uu.se writes: I also have that value 7 and all my posts are there, from way back. Perhaps just because the posts are marked in certain ways, you still have to issue some command to have them removed from your disk. I don't know except I have

Re: archiving threads one contributes to

2014-07-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Alan Schmitt alan.schm...@polytechnique.org writes: I want to make sure the articles are copied locally to some place where they won't expire. However I don't want to retain every article posted on these newsgroups indefinitely. Why not? It is just a bunch of text files, all neatly

Re: archiving threads one contributes to

2014-07-23 Thread Alan Schmitt
On 2014-07-23 20:25, Emanuel Berg embe8...@student.uu.se writes: Alan Schmitt alan.schm...@polytechnique.org writes: I've been using gnus to read news and RSS for two weeks (before it was only for email), and mine is at 53M. I see that all the RSS from gwene is cached there as well. Yes,

Re: What happened to nnslashdot and nnultimate

2014-07-23 Thread Stefan Huchler
ok u answered my quetion literaly. But the question behind my question is, what else like that is there, and if nothing is there why. Why would people want to use this horrific forums of websites which are not consistent at all? So either u comment on nothing as example a youtube video or a news

Re: What happened to nnslashdot and nnultimate

2014-07-23 Thread Adam Sjøgren
Stefan Huchler stefan.huch...@mail.de writes: ok u answered my quetion literaly. But the question behind my question is, what else like that is there, and if nothing is there why. Webscraping forum-sites is a lot of work, as you have to keep up with every little change. The websites that are