Re: Marks are going to be removed from Ma Gnus

[Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've never understood the point of having marks in nnml, nnfolder and
> nntp.  Other than "oo, the .newsrc.eld file is so scary".
>
> Which it isn't.
>
> So I'm going to remove all the backend marks stuff from these three
> backends.  Unless someone has a good reason why not to do that.

You mean marks like !, ?, etc?  I'd really ask that you not, at least
for nntp.  I've got a mind like a sieve, so I often find that in order
to post a coherent reply to someone, I've got to re-find the data I
need.  I mark the article ! and come back to later (sometimes hours
later).  (Since you don't mention nnmbox or nnimap, I suppose I could
actually subscribe to the mailing lists I normally read via nntp on
Gmane, and work things that way.)

Also, don't you almost have to keep at least read/unread markings so
Gnus knows which to display and the user knows which to read?

Or am I way off base here?