From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81327 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Marks are going to be removed from Ma Gnus Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:14:08 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <8762fboiu7.fsf@dod.no> References: <87ipjbhitf.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329081312 26534 80.91.229.3 (12 Feb 2012 21:15:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:15:12 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29607@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 12 22:15:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RwglK-0006AS-RX for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:15:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwgkl-0006Hv-Mz; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:14:35 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Rwgkk-0006Hm-MC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:14:34 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RwgkX-0004NX-Ap for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:14:34 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RwgkV-0007SA-Tl for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:14:19 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RwgkS-0005gL-HS for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:14:16 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no ([84.208.231.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:14:16 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:14:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oYNTCtUkDnfXFYu6sq5nRHFoyGM= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81327 Archived-At: >>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen : > I've never understood the point of having marks in nnml, nnfolder and > nntp. Other than "oo, the .newsrc.eld file is so scary". > Which it isn't. Well, it is... but duplicating the stuff that it's actually is _for_, is not the solution. The stuff I would like to move out, is: - Servers - Group parameters It would be nice to have this in a file that could be version controlled (ie. a file that would change more rarely than .newsrc.eld). > So I'm going to remove all the backend marks stuff from these three > backends. Unless someone has a good reason why not to do that. Nah. Sounds good.