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Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry?

From	"J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject	Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry?
Date	2025-06-03 13:50 +0100
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On 01/06/2025 20:36, Paul wrote:
> On Sun, 6/1/2025 8:40 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>> On 25/05/2025 20:11, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-25 11:51, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
[]
>>>> And: is there any way of setting an "expiry" period, such that posts - unless manually starred (or tagged or something similar) - disappear <period> after downloading, whether read or not?
>> []
>>> If you set a expiry age of 3 days, you will have problems.
>>>
>> What, exactly? (Or are you thinking of posts I want to keep and there's no way of marking posts _not_ to expire?)
[]
Long explanation (which I understood, through a glass darkly) snipped; 
thanks. If I understood what you were saying, it was that TB uses 
something in the received headers when expiring; TP does it based 
entirely on when _it_ downloaded the posts (_how_ it does that, I have 
no idea - maybe it adds its own header to each post). I can see that, if 
TB only uses the as-downloaded headers, setting a short expiry date 
could cause problems.>
> If you "keep expired headers" as I do (by not compacting in Thunderbird),

Ah - I've just discovered the "star" function in TB, and had assumed 
(since there's a setting in retentions to not delete starred messages) 
it was similar to TP's "keep" function; am I still in danger of losing 
starred if I compact? (Though I haven't found the "compact" setting 
again, though I think I saw it once.) I'm not sure about the difference 
between compact and retention - I've still got a lot to learn!
[]
> All I'm saying, is "Welcome to Thunderbird" o.O
> Think of the "fun" you will be missing. No BASE64
> to decode. Threaded discussions. Etc.

(-:>
>     Paul


-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-05-25 10:51 +0100
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-05-25 15:56 +0100
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-25 11:30 -0400
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-01 13:32 +0100
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-01 14:03 -0400
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? James <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-25 15:36 +0000
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-01 12:58 +0100
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-25 21:11 +0200
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> - 2025-05-25 23:10 +0200
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-26 13:28 +0200
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2025-05-26 17:50 +1200
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-26 13:34 +0200
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-01 13:40 +0100
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-06-01 14:05 +0100
        Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-03 13:38 +0100
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-06-01 15:36 -0400
        Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-03 13:50 +0100
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-04 15:23 +0200
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-05-25 20:01 -0500
    Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-26 13:37 +0200
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2025-05-27 16:01 +1000
      Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-04 15:18 +0200
  Re: combine newsgroups from two or more servers? And expiry? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-05-26 16:54 +0200

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