From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65865 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jidanni@jidanni.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: .newsrc.eld should have one newline per group Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:55:29 +0800 Message-ID: <8763zfe3ke.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <873auktzlo.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196726186 12758 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2007 23:56:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:56:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14360@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 04 00:56:35 2007 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 4.50) id 1IzL9O-0000IS-E0 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:56:34 +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 1IzL8h-0002Cy-0M; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:55:51 -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 1IzL8e-0002Cj-E3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:55:48 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IzL8Y-0000O9-U4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:55:48 -0600 Original-Received: from lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com ([208.113.200.5] helo=looneymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IzL8V-0003Ap-00 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:55:39 +0100 Original-Received: from jidanni1 (122-127-44-220.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.44.220]) by looneymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD53816E250 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:55:36 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Score: 0.7 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.1.9 2007-02-13) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.3408 Ham tokens: 0.000-2653--8851h-6s--0d--H*M:fsf, 0.000-2444--8156h-6s--0d--H*MI:fsf, 0.003-13202--44582h-189s--0d--diff, 0.008-109--378h-5s--0d--proprietary, 0.011-2--5h-0s--0d--newline Spam tokens: 0.962-4257--1179h-49269s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:quimby.gnus.org, 0.962-4257--1179h-49269s--0d--H*RU:quimby.gnus.org, 0.958-1--0h-1s--0d--H*RU:sk:122-127, 0.958-1--0h-1s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:sk:122-127, 0.940-3436--1833h-47757s--0d--H*r:quimby.gnus.org Autolearn status: no 1.0 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name -0.2 BAYES_40 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 20 to 40% [score: 0.3408] -0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65865 Archived-At: I swear yesterday, j> $ wc .newsrc.eld j> 13 44047 859072 .newsrc.eld But today 13 72252 1626238 .newsrc.eld Thats' right, somehow the palpitating blob of a file doubled in size overnight. Let's say we are curious about our sudden weight gain and wish to take a look and see what part suddenly swelled up. Even supposing that there was a backup kept, one couldn't use plain diff(1) to find what group is causing the trouble, due to lack of newlines. As the blob of a file is almost as useless as a proprietary binary format, it will be tough to find out why the file has doubled in size. So adding a few newlines would be a tiny price to pay for increased ease of inspection by many users.