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Automatic text removal (the garb)

Old texts are automatically removed by a process known as the garb. By default, the garb will remove all texts when it looks at them. There are several things that can save a text from removal:

• if the server is configured to never remove any texts.
• if text is marked. See mark-text.
• if the text is presentation of a conference. See set-presentation.
• if the text is message of the day for a conference. See set-etc-motd.
• if the text is message of the day for the system. See set-motd-of-lyskom.
• if the text is message of the user area of a person. See set-user-area.
• if the text is less than 24 hours old.
• if the text has an aux-item with the dont-garb bit set. See See Aux-Item-Flags.
• if the text is less than nice days old, for any of the recipients. nice is part of the Conference status. set-garb-nice. All recipient types, recpt, cc-recpt and bcc-recpt, counts. If the text was added to the conference after its creation, the check is made against the addition time instead of the creation time. See set-garb-nice.
• if the text was added as a comment or footnote to a text within the last 24 hours. See add-comment and add-footnote.
• for each comment and footnote to the text, the time when it became a comment or a footnote of the text is considered. If it is less than 24 hours, the text is saved. If it is less than the keep-commented field of any of the recipients of the text and the comment/footnote, it is saved. All recipient types, recpt, cc-recpt and bcc-recpt, counts. See set-keep-commented.

Other texts will be removed. It is an implementation detail of the server exactly when texts will be removed.