From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27472 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bud Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 0.98 amnesia Date: 01 Dec 1999 18:30:01 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87hfi2rxpy.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> References: <87iu2ibw4w.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> <87ln7e1m44.fsf@graaff.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164494 24775 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07689 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:31:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB03660; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:31:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 01 Dec 1999 18:31:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00024 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:31:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from twocups.sirinet.net (postfix@twocups.sirinet.net [207.3.88.229]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07672 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:30:36 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by twocups.sirinet.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id DCD5ACB4F; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:30:01 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hans de Graaff's message of "01 Dec 1999 20:45:15 +0100" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27472 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27472 Hans de Graaff 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