From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58742 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jouni K Seppanen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Warning against accidental downgrading Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:54:06 +0300 Organization: Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, HUT Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <29zn31tuj5.fsf@itl-pc9.hut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097001450 7310 80.91.229.6 (5 Oct 2004 18:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7281@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 05 20:37:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEuBZ-0005eK-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:37:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CEuB5-00040P-00; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:36:47 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CEl5I-0002hi-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CEl5J-0000Cq-BR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:54:13 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C713A0034 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 03:54:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEl5F-00029l-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:54:09 +0200 Original-Received: from itl-pc9.hut.fi ([130.233.173.109]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:54:09 +0200 Original-Received: from jks by itl-pc9.hut.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:54:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: itl-pc9.hut.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Gi79mgATpSrEJ7FDAF0+7Vc4GE= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58742 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58742 I was recently switching back and forth between Gnus 5.10.2 and 5.10.6 without realizing it (using Gnus on two different computers, one of which got upgraded). I just noticed that some messages that I sent or read in the older version were not visible in the newer version.=20 `gnus-agent-regenerate' seems to have fixed that problem (the Agent wasn't enabled by default in 5.10.2), but I have a suggestion to prevent future problems: when Gnus is starting up, if it notices that .newsrc.eld was written by a newer version of Gnus, it should at least warn the user. Of course, this wouldn't help with existing older versions, but might be useful in the future. --=20 Jouni K Sepp=E4nen