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On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:56:51 -0400 Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote: 

DA> I was just thinking about using gnus-sync to synchronize my newsgroups
DA> across computers, but then I realized (I think) that I could just keep
DA> my .newsrc* in a Dropbox or some such.  Is there any advantage to
DA> gnus-sync over an arrangement like that?

The LeSync (CouchDB) backend is a bit better about synchronizing: it
won't overwrite newer data when you `s'ave the marks, and it has a
timestamped ID for every group.  So you can read some groups and only
save those, not the whole file.

Ted