From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: When did backend marks become mandatory?
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:21:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tym95t9w.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d3sxqwja.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:05:29 +0200")
* 2010-09-01 18:05 (+0200), Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I get the following error now and then:
>
> Error reading nntp marks file /home/larsi/News/marks/news.eternal-september.org/comp/emacs/ ((error IO error reading /home/larsi/News/marks/news.eternal-september.org/comp/emacs/: Is a directory)). Continuing will use marks from .newsrc.eld. Continue? (y or n)
>
> I haven't requested backend marks, and I don't want them. And I can't
> find any way to disable them. Would anybody mind very much if I
> introduce a `gnus-user-marks' variable and default it to nil? That'd
> probably speed up normal Gnus usage greatly.
I have seen the same or very similar error message too. I described the
issue and my personal work-around hack here:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5656
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-01 16:21 UTC|newest]
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2010-09-01 16:05 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-01 16:21 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2010-09-01 20:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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