From: Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>
Subject: Re: 0.98 amnesia
Date: 01 Dec 1999 18:30:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hfi2rxpy.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hans de Graaff's message of "01 Dec 1999 20:45:15 +0100"
Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl> writes:
> Isn't this because Netscape then perhaps makes a new .newsrc file,
> which is then read by Gnus because the timestamp is newer?
That was it. And I found a .newsrc~ from before the change last night.
Had to read through some old stuff, but I'm back in business. Now I
remember why I never mess with netscape mail/news. Plaach!
>
> Thanks for reminding me why I have this in my .gnus:
>
> (setq gnus-startup-file "/home/graaff/.newsrc-news.tudelft.nl")
>
> That causes the normal .newsrc file to be called
> .newsrc-news.tudelft.nl, and Gnus' own file
> .newsrc-news.tudelft.nl.eld. If something else writes a .newsrc file,
> Gnus takes no notice.
Thought I had something like that too, but I've been through too many
changes in the last few months. Not all my fixes have caught up. Thanks
for the reminder.
--
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-02 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-01 13:58 Bud Rogers
1999-12-01 19:45 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-12-02 0:30 ` Bud Rogers [this message]
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