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From: Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Changed criteria for deciding if articles have been read?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 14:18:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87elolzz12.fsf@uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilu8zeuc648.fsf@barbar.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:19:02 +0200")

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Lloyd's analysis is correct, but he points a potential problem: If you
> use a Gnus version with .mrk/.marks, then downgrade Gnus to a older
> version and read alot of mail, and then upgrade Gnus again, you will
> lose those marks added when you used the old Gnus.  That is not nice.

Could the marks code look at gnus-newsrc-file-version, and if that
is before the first version that correctly supported .marks files,
remove any .marks files it finds?  Or maybe just display a warning
message?

-- 
Dan Christensen
jdc+news@uwo.ca



      reply	other threads:[~2001-10-02 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-01  0:35 Lloyd Zusman
2001-10-01  6:09 ` Christoph Conrad
2001-10-01 20:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-10-01 22:00   ` Lloyd Zusman
2001-10-01 22:30     ` Lloyd Zusman
2001-10-02 11:43       ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-02 11:53         ` Lloyd Zusman
2001-10-02 16:05           ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-02 17:19             ` Simon Josefsson
2001-10-02 18:18               ` Dan Christensen [this message]

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