From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11059 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: saving to nnml groups Date: 24 May 1997 16:37:12 -0700 Organization: Discordian Alliance For Teaching Message-ID: <8767w8qw5f.fsf@perv.daft.com> References: <873eresl3p.fsf@perv.daft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150832 28017 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA22067 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 20:06:58 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA07734 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 20:06:43 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA28764 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 22:05:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 01:37:40 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 20574 invoked by uid 504); 24 May 1997 23:37:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20571 invoked from network); 24 May 1997 23:37:37 -0000 Original-Received: from perv.daft.com (204.122.30.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 24 May 1997 23:37:36 -0000 Original-Received: (from torin@localhost) by perv.daft.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) id QAA28571; Sat, 24 May 1997 16:37:14 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Web: http://www.daft.com/~torin/ X-Discordia: Hail Eris - keep up OM X-Address: 2608 Second Avenue, #282 Seattle, WA 98121-1212 USA X-Phone-Fax: +1-800-921-4996/+1-206-727-5084 X-Face: @E5e"O[(T!v&8{hyJLrPQnww-"r;+642m"aAJi~H2t#QCQj)UkGNh4FL,;\sc{e[]|MXbF| *A+F|~XOY2JP'Bvk_.Gd{W0$/y5i<"X0y4%0S5GA6S\&/$P@Dgcr~cT1p6,op6N}#{A\0>9CaWy]a) ].L1j39flY?{z;KeP In-Reply-To: Sudish Joseph's message of 23 May 1997 10:26:02 -0400 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 19.15 Original-Lines: 40 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1448 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11059 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11059 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 - -- Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Do you have your clothes on? I probably don't. Take yours off. Feel better. @ @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI programmer and tutor. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBM4d7uI4wrq++1Ls5AQExfAP8CX0IWyfMDE93tU4fIe+xDwS389XuEc8c Z0DzLu05N1Z9ybtcRgs2mBQk5DMv/JfwiVahMwX4ZvsBFZ7LG5QyYairH4pZyTtE lNtpSPkMDmNKFapLFT7m9nf93BD47hZhSfFysCSoiZ8JMWxCMeBnWZEDfMnHnisD 52trQfNBQ7A= =g4EB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----