From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42133 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ami Fischman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 'seen' state reset on Gnus restart? Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:47:57 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <81advc6f8y.fsf@zion.bpnetworks.com> References: <871ygt8w5e.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177417 9758 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:16:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23285 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2002 17:41:31 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 17:41:31 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16RGXP-0000K6-00; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:41:19 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:41:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA07012 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:41:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23275 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2002 17:41:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23270 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2002 17:40:59 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 17:40:59 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16RGZg-0005zP-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:43:40 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zion.bpnetworks.com Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1011289420 23016 207.199.66.114 (17 Jan 2002 17:43:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jan 2002 17:43:40 GMT Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sL7mH0fqjAd6We58awhFQWZMqAc= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42133 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42133 FWIW, I've had a similar experience, and the culprit ended up being ~/mail/active -- for some reason gnus decided to stick a couple of my nntp groups there, and then every time I restarted gnus my .newsrc.eld file would get updated as if I'd never seen any of the articles in the group. Take a look at your mail active file. I have no idea how this happened, of course... -- Ami Fischman usenet@fischman.org