Re: killing threads == expunging?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

David Cohen <dnc@bigfoot.com> writes:

> A while back there was an informative thread about the difference
> between marking a message read and expunging it.  This prompted me to
> add the following to my .gnus:
> 
> (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map "d" 'gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable)
>
> But now I wonder about other ways to mark as read.  In particular,
> killing a thread with ctrl-k.  Will that expunge articles or merely
> mark them as read?  And is the behavior configurable?

It will mark them as read. If you use auto-expire read articles become
expirable automatically, it sounds as if this would be what you want,
and you wouldn't have to change the binding if 'd'.