Re: saving to nnml groups

["Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>]

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Sudish Joseph, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>Even if you don't use Gnus splitting at all, you still have to be
>careful with the `B' commands.  Moving an article into a group with `B 
>m' can actually lose mail -- Gnus doesn't re-read the overview file or 
>the active file before such commands, so an asynch-delivered article
>can get clobbered -- which is a lot worse than nov file corruption.

Well, I don't use mailagent to file things into the groups that I"d B m
messages into, so that's not a problem.  Still my own saver function
might be safer.

>Last, and certainly the least, there's the active file.  It'll get
>corrupted (in the sense of missing new entries) too.  This is self
>correcting, though, since the next message for that group will fix the 
>problem.  It's easy to look for this problem from an external script.

'Course if my script that updates the .overview works with the active
file as well, I shouldn't have the problem.

Darren
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