From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67883 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus should backup .newsrc.eld Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:17:26 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <87vdtqb3dr.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229051909 25340 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2008 03:18:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:18:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16329@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Dec 12 04:19:33 2008 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 4.50) id 1LAyYv-0003Xj-7r for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:19:33 +0100 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 1LAyXW-0005aO-Ee; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:18:06 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LAyXV-0005a9-Bl for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:18:05 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LAyXS-0005cj-TW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:18:05 -0600 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LAyXe-0000Zy-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:18:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56296) by orlando.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LAyWt-0000OO-2f for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:17:27 -0600 X-Hashcash: 1:20:081212:ding@gnus.org::chaXB+Tge0u1F2KH:00000ZfN X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yede9Zsca1+MbYIKsC5hzbWJfbg= X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67883 Archived-At: >>>>> jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > Why doesn't gnus make a backup of its .newsrc.eld? > Don't ask me "Why, what could ever go wrong?" > Just save one old version by default. If doing so, we'll also have to backup nnfolder-marks, nnml-marks, and nntp-marks, that all are preferred to .newsrc.eld.