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From: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Primary select method switch
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:32:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sf72wf8a.fsf@dick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il7yii5w.fsf@ust.hk> (Andrew Cohen's message of "Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:52:43 +0800")

dvl> Now I have all my gmail groups duplicated. The old ones (named

Yeah, "total fails" like this are commonplace.  It's what happens when
your mail reader is the culmination of thirty years of cruft.  The
"wut?" of adding a secondary "select methods" variable instead of
vectorizing the first is what you did as a 22-yo in the 1990s.  To this
day I've only a vague idea of what a "select method" is, and I probably
spent more time rewriting gnus than anyone here.

Gnus's persistence model is and was 1990s flat files.  We didn't think
too hard at that time.  If something went wrong, we just went into our
.newsrc.eld, intuited its layout, deleted the offending entries, and
restarted.  I'd advise the same in 2023.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-25 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-25  9:47 Didier Verna
2023-09-25  9:59 ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-09-25 11:52 ` Andrew Cohen
2023-09-25 13:32   ` dick [this message]
2023-09-25 14:06   ` Didier Verna
2023-09-30 11:59   ` Arash Esbati
2023-10-04 19:59     ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-05  7:58     ` Eric S Fraga
2023-10-05  8:41       ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-05  9:02         ` Eric S Fraga
2023-10-13 15:36         ` Steinar Bang
2023-10-05  8:51       ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-05  9:01         ` Eric S Fraga
2023-10-05  9:33           ` Gijs Hillenius
2023-10-05 13:02             ` Eric S Fraga
2023-10-05 12:18           ` Andrew Cohen

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