From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38192 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new marks code is breaking a pre_marks setup Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:33:23 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <873d6jsb5o.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174096 21066 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:21:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 14698 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2001 03:34:15 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net (HELO melancholia.danann.net) (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 03:34:15 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.rimspace.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8390D2A833 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:33:56 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 92B5A82273; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:33:23 +1000 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Colin Marquardt's message of "Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:50:03 -0700") X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.5 (artichoke) Original-Lines: 37 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38192 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38192 On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Colin Marquardt wrote: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: >=20 >> Harry Putnam writes: >> >> With the new marks code, you can move a directory like >> ~/Mail/mail/misc from one machine to the other and the marks will go >> along. Or you can save some of your mail groups on CD and then access >> them later on, keeping all the marks and stuff. >> >> Previously, all the marks were in .newsrc.eld, and it wasn't easy to >> back up only that part of it which was relevant to a specific group. >=20 > Cool. So SOUP is not really necessary anymore (not to mention that I > never got it to work), or its function could change to only compress > the stuff... Actually, there are presumably still a few die-hard Fido Technology Network users out there who use SOUP for access to Internet email and all; I know that I did for a while when I was dealing primarily with FTN mail... ...and SOUP keeps that information it's own way and interoperates with other tools that speak it.[1] :) Daniel Footnotes:=20 [1] Well, I know of three -- the SOUP packager I had, GoldEd and Gnus. :) --=20 You come for me now with a cake that you've made Ravaged avenger with a clip in your hair Full of glass and bleach and my old razorblades O where do we go now but nowhere -- Nick Cave, _Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?_