From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60577 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 15:01:34 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <4nwtnrgagh.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <813bqivjvo.fsf@adboyd.com> <4nackojd23.fsf@lifelogs.com> <81oe94xe9a.fsf@adboyd.com> <4n3bqghvtg.fsf@lifelogs.com> <81k6jsxblp.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 1121455580 23649 80.91.229.2 (15 Jul 2005 19:26:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:26:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9105@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 15 21:26:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtVoY-0000Vo-Lf for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:25:39 +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 1DtVm4-0006ZT-00; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DtVRT-0006UO-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DtVRS-0001xM-Rm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:01:47 -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 1DtVRP-0002qk-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:01:43 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 20654 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2005 18:57:46 -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 18:57:45 -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::bboTL95m4nQg3YNH:00000D8M X-Hashcash: 1:20:050715:david@adboyd.com::xy47iYNDYDNZxAUh:00/QA In-Reply-To: (Steven E. Harris's message of "Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:52:21 -0700") 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:60577 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60577 On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, seh@panix.com wrote: > At present I use unison (rsync works fine too) to synchronize > everything under ~/doc/news, excluding ~/doc/news/agent. I used to > synchronize ~/.newsrc and ~/.newsrc.eld, but was advised against > it. Supposedly the per-backend marks files take care of whatever state > is represented in .newsrc.eld. That's strange, I didn't know marks were in the file system. At least for me, under ~/News/marks there are a lot of .marks files. How does that coordinate with newsrc.eld? Why have marks in the newsrc.eld file at all if they are in .marks files as well? Thanks Ted