From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60571 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted Zlatanov" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: backing up read messages, and subscribed lists. Date: 15 Jul 2005 12:34:51 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <4n3bqghvtg.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <813bqivjvo.fsf@adboyd.com> <4nackojd23.fsf@lifelogs.com> <81oe94xe9a.fsf@adboyd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121445376 27670 80.91.229.2 (15 Jul 2005 16:36:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9099@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 15 18:36:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtTAF-0000Wf-Aa for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:35:51 +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 1DtT9S-0005aI-00; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DtT9N-0005aD-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DtT9K-0007oY-UD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:34:55 -0500 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu ([134.174.9.41] helo=mail.bwh.harvard.edu) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DtT9J-000164-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:34:54 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 11634 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2005 16:31:01 -0000 Envelope-Sender: tzz@lifelogs.com Envelope-Recipients: david@adboyd.com, ding@gnus.org, Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu (HELO asimov) (internal?.8?user:?tzz@[134.174.8.118]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.bwh.harvard.edu (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Jul 2005 16:31:00 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: "J. David Boyd" , ding@gnus.org Original-To: "J. David Boyd" X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" X-Hashcash: 1:20:050715:ding@gnus.org::g6789lPn4N/Yxiq5:00000by1 X-Hashcash: 1:20:050715:david@adboyd.com::JwaUc+iChK4FGGcN:0A/mt In-Reply-To: <81oe94xe9a.fsf@adboyd.com> (J. David Boyd's message of "Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:47:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on sysblade0.bwh.harvard.edu X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.8 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60571 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60571 On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, david@adboyd.com wrote: > But I'm not talking about my email at all, just news groups. I > don't control them, so I don't think IMAP would help in this > situation. No, you're right. Your original message said "backing up read messages, and subscribed lists" so I assumed you meant e-mail. > I just want to save my gnus pointers to where and what I've read, so > I don't have to read the same things twice. (note I'm not an expert in this, so excuse any inaccuracies) It should be enough to copy newsrc.eld, it has all the marks and read/unread information I believe. The problem is that it has all the other data you may not want to copy as well: gnus-server-alist, gnus-killed-list, gnus-topic-topology, gnus-topic-alist, gnus-format-specs, etc. So unless your home setup is exactly like your work setup, it will probably not work. What may work is to extract the line(s) for the group(s) of interest and copy those over, but the server names and group names have to match. If anyone else knows how to do this, please speak up... Ted