From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39110 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Changed criteria for deciding if articles have been read? Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 14:18:17 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87elolzz12.fsf@uwo.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174870 26114 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:34:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 19674 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 18:19:30 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 18:19:30 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15oU87-0002uY-00; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:18:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA25806 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:18:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 19665 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2001 18:18:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19660 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 18:18:32 -0000 Original-Received: from pony.its.uwo.ca (129.100.2.63) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 18:18:32 -0000 Original-Received: from pony.its.uwo.ca (hurdle.its.uwo.ca [129.100.2.108]) by pony.its.uwo.ca (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id f92IK0aR005389 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:20:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from scratchy (ren.math.uwo.ca [129.100.75.76]) by pony.its.uwo.ca (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id f92IJvpn005339 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:19:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jdc by scratchy with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15oU7W-0007Bc-00; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 14:18:18 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:19:02 +0200") Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.100 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39110 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39110 Simon Josefsson 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