From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38176 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Problems with .newsrc.eld (aws: Re: self-contained nnml) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:56:12 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <8766bh9dcz.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174083 20985 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:21:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 21198 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 00:18:50 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net (HELO melancholia.danann.net) (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Aug 2001 00:18:50 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.rimspace.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22F22A83B for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:18:28 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D3351820F1; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:56:12 +1000 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:31:23 +0200 (CEST)") X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.5 (artichoke) Original-Lines: 36 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38176 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38176 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 -- We propose to burn the academic libraries, because Theology is only fanaticism, History is lies, Philosophy is dreams, and Science is unnecessary. -- The Commune of Marseilles