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> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> Has anyone invented a procedure for sync-ing marks and article statuses
>> across multiple versions of gnus?
>
> I used to do that, and ~/News/, ~/Mail/, ~/.nnmail-cache, ~/.newsrc*
> are sufficient (with the default filename settings).
>
> But I keep wondering whether there might be another
> solution...  Could you log in to a central host and run Gnus from
> there?  For running two Gnusae on the same host, M-x gnus-slave RET
> is your friend.

No, I can't log in to the central host from the remote machines. :(
All I can do is get remote IMAP, NNTP, rsync, etc. connections.  If I
could log in, then I would have done that, and I wouldn't have needed to
ask this question in the first place. [sigh]


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com