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Sigh, here we go again.  Once before we discussed the issue of gnus
default directory names, and I thought I had resolved everything.  I
have all of these set these in my .emacs file:

(setq gnus-directory "~/news/"
      gnus-article-save-directory "~/news/"
      gnus-kill-files-directory "~/news/"
      gnus-nocem-directory "~/news/NoCeM/"
      gnus-sent-message-ids-file "~/news/Sent-Message-IDs"
      message-directory "~/mail/"
      message-autosave-directory "~/mail/"
      nnml-directory "~/mail/"
      nnmail-crash-box "~/mail/.gnus-crash-box"
      nnmail-message-id-cache-file "~/mail/.nnmail-cache")

Today I went hunting for my mail archive (because I couldn't remember
what it was called ;-)  and eventually found it in:
~/Mail/archive/misc-mail

What am I missing?

Basically, I'd like to some day be able to delete the ~/Mail and
~/News directories from my home directory, and know that they won't
come back.  What is the minimum requirement for this to be possible?


Also, ever since I upgraded to XEmacs (and the gnus version therein) I
no longer accumulate Incomingxx###xx files.  Did some default behavior
change?

And one last thing.  I think I remember from old discussions that
adaptive scoring is based on marks when you exit a group.  Is this
true?  If so, I wonder about messages marked "Y".  If I read these
messages, the mark remains as a "Y", it doesn't change to indicate
that it has been read.  Does gnus keep some internal record of this
fact, or am I supposed to manually change the mark?


thanks,
Michael