Re: storing messages into an mbox file

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> lee writes:
>
>> I'm finding this mailing list not very helpful.
>
> Sometimes you get what you put in.
>
>> Now I can't even find out where the mails are stored, how to delete
>> obsolete groups and how to make sure that the data gnus uses is clean.
>> These are very simple and basic questions, with no answers to them.
>
> If they are really simple and basic, how come you don't answer them?

If I knew the answers or could find them, I wouldn't need to ask.

> If I knew the answers, or if I cared enough to investigate and happened
> to find the answer, I would tell you. I think that goes for everybody here.

Yes, and I assume that the problem is that nobody knows.  So every now
and then, there is a question and you can already expect that nobody
knows the answer to it.  At some point, what else can you do but switch
to another software that provides the functionality you need.

> But frankly, I personally don't feel like going the extra mile to help
> someone who apparantly thinks "threatening" to drop Gnus is a good way
> to ask for help.

I'm not threatening, it's merely the way it is.  When you cannot figure
out anymore where your software stores your data, there is no other
option than not to use that software anymore and to migrate the data you
can still find.


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