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Subject: Re: Marks are going to be removed from Ma Gnus
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On Sun, Feb 12 2012, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> I've never understood the point of having marks in nnml, nnfolder and
> nntp.  Other than "oo, the .newsrc.eld file is so scary".

Well, the arguments mentioned in (info "(gnus)Mail Spool") seem
reasonable, at least for nnfolder and nnml.  But I have disabled them
for nntp since day one.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Spool") ]
|    When the marks file is used (which it is by default), `nnml' servers
| have the property that you may backup them using `tar' or similar, and
| later be able to restore them into Gnus (by adding the proper `nnml'
| server) and have all your marks be preserved.  Marks for a group are
| usually stored in the `.marks' file (but see `nnml-marks-file-name')
| within each `nnml' group's directory.  Individual `nnml' groups are
| also possible to backup, use `G m' to restore the group (after
| restoring the backup into the nnml directory).
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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