From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80206 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposed code to cleanup gnus on Emacs exit Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:48:12 -0400 Message-ID: <8762k0k2gz.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <87fwjfn3z4.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318016932 28246 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 19:48:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 19:48:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28500@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 07 21:48:48 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCGPX-0006bN-S4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:48:48 +0200 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 1RCGPH-0002f8-Nb; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RCGPG-0002f0-Of for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RCGPF-0006yK-Eu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RCGPC-0000Hn-KU for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:48:26 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCGP9-0006Rn-Pt for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:48:23 +0200 Original-Received: from cpe0023bee5dd21-cm0023bee5dd1e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.249.62.111]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:48:23 +0200 Original-Received: from jdc by cpe0023bee5dd21-cm0023bee5dd1e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:48:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe0023bee5dd21-cm0023bee5dd1e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:dhLFC1xyMyVPBGnWyvG8mezl91k= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80206 Archived-At: Dave Abrahams writes: > Can't we at least read the dribble file unconditionally? Please, no. If I accidentally catch up a group or something else gets messed up, then what I do is exit emacs *without* saving the .newsrc.eld and then start Gnus without reading the dribble file. You are proposing removing both of those options, which would get rid of that safety net. Dan