Re: Problems with .newsrc.eld (aws: Re: self-contained nnml)

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
>> Er, I went and updated my Gnus to the latest CVS version...
>>
>> ...and it works now. *sigh*
> 
> Oh.  Good.

Er, yes. Sorry. I should have been more positive about it, but I always
get nervous when a bug just stops without an obvious cause. Anyway,
thanks for your help with this, it /is/ much appreciated.

[...]

>> Well, group parameters such as the `to-list' and `to-address', I
>> would expect to transfer and back-up correctly. If I stopped backing
>> up the .eld file and they got lost, I would go find a corner and cry
>> or something. :)
> 
> Well, one point of the `.marks' file is that you don't need to backup
> .newsrc.eld at all, so I think it would be good to put more backend
> state in it.

Quite. Ah, easy to back up. Now all I need do is get the 1.2GB of it
backed up. :)

Anyway, this is a good thing. Thanks for the effort.

        Daniel

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