From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60568 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: backing up read messages, and subscribed lists. Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:47:29 -0400 Message-ID: <81oe94xe9a.fsf@adboyd.com> References: <813bqivjvo.fsf@adboyd.com> <4nackojd23.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121442658 19027 80.91.229.2 (15 Jul 2005 15:50:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9096@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 15 17:50:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtSS1-00016f-9X for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:50:09 +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 1DtSRT-0005H5-00; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DtSRP-0005H0-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:49:31 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DtSRK-00075Y-LN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:49:26 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DtSRJ-0000Ym-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:49:25 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DtSQh-0000sD-4w for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:48:47 +0200 Original-Received: from rrcs-67-78-201-138.se.biz.rr.com ([67.78.201.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:48:47 +0200 Original-Received: from david by rrcs-67-78-201-138.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:48:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-67-78-201-138.se.biz.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a8mrUaNkFRygKZnpS251i4J3Pzs= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60568 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60568 "Ted Zlatanov" writes: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, david@adboyd.com wrote: > >> I'm trying to find the correct files to backup to my home machine so >> that I can continue to read where I was at work. >> >> I've tried copying the News directory, as well as .newsrc and >> .newsrc.eld. But it seems that something is still missing. >> >> Any information on where else I need to gather files to make certain >> that when I get home I can continue where I was from work? > > You should really consider an IMAP server, which you can access from > anywhere. The process you describe is painful, and will not work well > (e.g. what if you forget to synchronize one day, now you have two > branches of your data). > > In addition, you can use an IMAP server from any IMAP-capable client, > so if Gnus is not available you can fire up Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird, > or any of the many IMAP clients out there. 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. 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. Thanks, Dave in Largo, FL