From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70266 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: When did backend marks become mandatory? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:21:31 +0300 Message-ID: <87tym95t9w.fsf@mithlond.arda> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283358116 26505 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2010 16:21:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:21:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18652@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 01 18:21:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqq4O-0006uC-8O for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:21:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqq4F-0000ef-Tp; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqq4E-0000eT-Ue for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:21:42 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqq4A-0003L8-BJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:21:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13] helo=jenni2.inet.fi) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Oqq49-0007dy-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:21:37 +0200 Original-Received: from mithlond.arda (84.251.132.215) by jenni2.inet.fi (8.5.122) id 4C33307701C7A301 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:21:37 +0300 Original-Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqq43-0001Ci-8b for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:21:31 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:05:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70266 Archived-At: * 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